'Give some examples of Early Phonological Errors in Child Language Acquisition'

When learning to speak, children frequently make a variety of phonological mistakes, often due to difficulties with the pronunciation of certain words. These mistakes can be identified and placed into categories known as ‘Early Phonological Errors’. A common example of an Early Phonological Error takes form when a child struggles to articulate words with multiple consonants grouped together; linguistically referred to as a ‘consonant cluster’. Children are likely to remove particular consonants within a consonant cluster as a result of this difficulty to pronounce. For example, when voicing the noun ‘spider’, young speakers may be inclined to remove the /s/ phoneme to leave themselves with the pronunciation ‘pider’. Similarly, this can be applied to ‘school’ which may become ‘sool’ and ‘truck’ which may become ‘tuck’. This process is known as a ‘Consonant Cluster Reduction’. Another example of an Early Phonological Error is known as ‘Addition’, by which a child places an additional vowel sound on the end of words in order to create a consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel construction- as with ‘doggie’ and ‘mummy’. A final demonstration of an Early Phonological Error is the concept of ‘Deletion of Unstressed Syllables’ whereby children may omit the first syllable in polysyllabic words, such as ‘nana’ for ‘banana’.