PURPOSE: to verify and to compare the repair strategies and the influence of linguistic (syllabic and prosodic) and extralinguistic variables in the production of consonant clusters by children with typical and atypical phonological development. METHOD: it was analyzed the speech of 48 children, 24 with typical phonological development and 24 with atypical phonological development, similar in relation to sex, and age between 2:6 to 5:5;29 (typical group) and 5:0 to 7:11;29 (atypical group). The samples were collected transversely, based on the instrument Avaliação Fonológica da Criança. It was analyzed the words presented as target consonant clusters, with a corpus of 278 words of typical development and 460 of atypical development. The correct production, C² deletion, C¹ deletion, syllable deletion, epenthetic, metathesis and idiosyncrasies were considered as variants of the dependent variable. The extralinguistic factors such as age, sex and development type, and linguistic variables the number of syllables, next precedent syllabic context, the position in the word, the complexity of the onset in the syllable and metrical foot were considered as independent intervening variables. The speech data were statistically analyzed through VARBRUL. RESULTS: the statistical program selected as significant for the correct production and other types of repair strategies in the consonant clusters the variables sex, age, development type, position in the word, metrical foot and precedent syllabic context. CONCLUSION: it was found that the linguistic and extralinguistic variables significantly influence the production of consonant clusters in children with both developments. The most widely used repair strategy was the deletion of C².
Language Development Disorders; Language Development; Phonetics
