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Phoneme Development

The chart below indicates when children typically master specific speech sounds.

This chart depicts a range of development and should only be used as a general guide.

                                    

** Bilingual preschoolers from Spanish-English backgrounds have a similar phonetic inventory to their monolingual peers (Gildersleeve-Neumann, Kester, Davis & Peña, in revision; Goldstein & Washington, 2001).

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