Phonetic-phonological adjustments in first-year children of basic education from the public and private education system. Incidence of sex and the type of educational establishment that they attend

Authors

  • Enzo Fabián Alarcón Acuña Universidad de Concepción
  • Hernán Mauricio León Valdés Universidad de Concepción
  • Jaime Patricio Soto-Barba Universidad de Concepción
  • Katia Lorena Sáez Carrillo Universidad de Concepción

Abstract

The study of the influences of the sociocultural level and sex on children’s phonetic-phonological performance has mainly focused on the preschool years and shown less attention on school. Furthermore, few studies analyze how these two factors interact in the child performance of the Chilean children’s and what type of influences they manifest in the phoneticphonological performance. The objective of the study is to determine the phonetic-phonological performance among Chilean boys and girls with typical language development coming from a private and from another public school. Methodology. 57 informants participated in this study, of which 33 subjects attend the private school (18 boys and 15 girls) and 24 subjects attend the public school (11 boys and 13 girls). A word repetition test was applied and the productions were analyzed using a tool called Classification of Phonetic-Phonological Adjustments (CLAFF in spanish). Results. The children of the public school obtained a significantly lower performance in the participants, although such socio-cultural influences do not affect boys and girls equally. For the sex, there are no significant differences between boys and girls. Conclusions. The influences of the public educational system significantly disadvantage boys and girls in syllable AFFs and significantly girls in articulatory features AFFs. There are no statistical differences between boys and girls of the same educational system.

Keywords:

Educational system, Sociocultural level, Sex, Phoneticphonological performance, CLAFF

Author Biographies

Enzo Fabián Alarcón Acuña, Universidad de Concepción

Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: Enzo Fabián Alarcón Acuña (enzoalarconacuna@gmail.com), ORCID 0000-002-1418-0052, Departamento de Español, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad de Concepción

Hernán Mauricio León Valdés, Universidad de Concepción

Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: Hernán Mauricio León Valdés (hleon@udec.cl), ORCID 0000-0002-7986-7509, Departamento de Español, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad de Concepción

Jaime Patricio Soto-Barba, Universidad de Concepción

Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: Jaime Patricio Soto-Barba (jstot@udec.cl ), ORCID 0000-0001-6513-4534, Departamento de Español, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad de Concepción

Katia Lorena Sáez Carrillo, Universidad de Concepción

Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: Katia Lorena Sáez Carrillo (ksaez@udec.cl), ORCID 0000-0002-8580-8038, Departamento de Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Concepción