ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews and expands the literature on consonant– vowel (CV) interactions in developing sound systems (typical and disordered) and explores the usefulness of phonetic models (Kent & Bauer, 1985; Davis & MacNeilage, 1995; Studdert-Kennedy & Goodell, 1995; Sussman, Duder, Dalston, & Caciatore, 1999; MacNeilage & Davis, 2000, Green, Moore, & Reilly, 2002) in accounting for and predicting the occurrence of these phenomena. The phonetic models provide a biological perspective insofar as the immature pronunciations of the typically developing child are viewed as systematic reflections of organic constraints imposed by the child’s developing phonetic systems, both perceptual and motor. 1
