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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2006 Sep-Oct;20(0):553–561. doi: 10.1080/02699200500266455

Table IV.

Item analysis.a

Grouped by Language Classification
Grouped by Race
SLI 6N 4N AA W
/b/ in /nɑɪb/ 94% 69% 68% 73% 74%
/f/ in /nɔɪtɑʊf/ 94% 50% 55% 67% 56%
/p/ in /vætʃɑɪp/ 88% 47% 52% 67% 50%
/v/ in /voʊp/ 50% 22% 26% 33% 26%
/ɔɪ/ in /nɔɪtɑʊf/ 88% 25% 29% 39% 20%
/v/ in /vætʃɑɪp/ 54% 14% 29% 33% 24%
/k/ in /teɪvɑk/ 50% 22% 16% 27% 24%
/tʃ/ in /vætʃɑɪp/ 50% 11% 29% 42% 14%
/ɡ/ in /tʃoʊvæɡ/ 38% 19% 23% 27% 22%
/ɑ/ in /teɪvɑk/ 31% 19% 0% 12% 16%
/v/ in /tʃoʊvæɡ/ 25% 0% 10% 9% 8%
a

Patterns listed from highest to lowest rate of error. Also reported are the percentages of children in each group who made an error on the identified phoneme.