Since two obstruents cannot be assigned to syllable initial position, /p/ is assigned to the first syllable, while the affricate is assigned to the second syllable.

Student 3 is a young adult male with a profound sensorineural hearing loss. He received a cochlear implant in July 2002 and is very satisfied with it. His speech is better than semi-intelligible in a ...

If the child’s phonetic inventory consists of: [m, n, t, d, p, b, w, j, h], /l/ and /tʃ/ can be used as targets because they differ in place (alveolar vs postalveolar), manner (approximant vs ...