Phonetics and Phonology

The title of the dissertation is: Flouting Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) in Child Language: An Optimality Perspective
Title of the Chapter: Discussion of Results ( Data Analysis ) Note: the chapter does not consist of only three pages, rather this chapter will be more than fifty
pages. These three pages are limited due to the shortage number of recorded audio files on the one hand, and also these three pages could be considered as
a trial order to test both the site and the writer handling this order, on the other hand. So, if the writer succeeds to submit a related and well-organized order, I
will certainly choose him/her to write the rest of the 37 pages. In this chapter, the writer is going to make an introductory paragraph explaining the main steps
and procedures followed in this chapter to achieve and handle the phonological analyses ( in tableau form of IDENT-manner, MAX, DEP, complex, etc ) of the
uploaded audio file ( child’s pronunciation of some words ) to show the violation or flouting of the sonority sequencing principle from the perspective of the
Optimality Theory. The writer can make use of the uploaded pdf files in order to have a clear idea and full knowledge of the phonological analysis. It is very
necessary that the writer has to be specialized in the field of phonetics and phonology. Moreover, the writer must first write down the phonemic transcriiption
of some of the selected words chosen from an uploaded file of a dialogue with a child. The selected words ( at least three words that should be analyzed )
should have the sound consonant clusters in both the onset and the coda of the syllables. Of course, the writer has to listen carefully to the audio file and
then pick up some specific words in which he thinks the child has made some sort of deletion, insertion, epenthesis, metathesis, or substitution to specific
sounds, especially the consonant sounds that flout the theory of Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) from the perspective of the Optimality Theory ( OT ).
Definitely, if the writer is an expert and specialized in phonology, then he/she knows what I mean exactly. The phonemic transcriiption that is used in this
order should be the one used by the phonetician Peter Roach ( RP English ). I mean the writer should use the British phonemic symbols ( Oxford dictionary
phonetic symbols ) and not the American symbols used by Mehmet Yavas. When the writer applies the phonological analysis from the perspective of the OT,
he/she should be careful with referring to the high rank and lower rank constraints, of course after he/she refers to violation of the SSP in the selected words
chosen from the uttered dialogue pronounced by the child. Furthermore, the writer has to draw or design the prosodic trees of the syllables of the selected
words in order to show the internal combination or sequence of those syllables. Moreover, the writer can make use of the attached or uploaded files which
are the following: 1- Copy of the Dialogue with the Child ( pdf ) 2- Audio file. ( here, according to his/her experience and professionality, the writer can use
another word instead of the word “participant No”, etc ) ( Note that the number of the two pages may be ( or not ) enough for the analysis of the
pronunciation of only one child; here I want to remind the writer that these five pages are only tested to examine the competency and proficiency of the writer
) 3- Three sample files tackle the phonological analysis from the perspective of OT, and explain the theory of SSP. ( though these files are different in content
and research method ). ( sample file ) 4- Two books for Peter Roach and Mehmet Yavas that can be both used as sources. So, in brief, the proposed steps for
writing the order and doing the analysis can be elicited as the following: 1- Introductory paragraph explaining the followed steps and procedures for the
technique of the analysis. 2- Listen to the audio recording file carefully. 3- Choose some of the words from the dialogue that you find that the child has
violated the Sonority Sequencing Principle when pronouncing the consonant sound clusters for the syllables; by making the phonemic transcriiption (
transcriiption symbols used by Peter Roach in his book ) for the selected words. 4- Applying Hogg and McCully’s (1987) model of Sonority hierarchy. ( there is
a lot of information related to this model in the sample file entitled: “The Perceptibility o English Sonority”. 5- Making the phonological analysis in terms of
Optimality Theory. The phonological analyses in terms of the Optimality Theory mean in tableau form of IDENT-manner, MAX, DEP, complex, etc. of the
uploaded audio file ( child’s pronunciation of some words ) to show the violation or flouting of the sonority sequencing principle from the perspective of the
Optimality Theory. ( with short paragraphs explaining every tableau as in the uploaded photo sample no1 ) 6- Drawing the prosodic trees. ( with short
paragraphs explaining every tree as in the uploaded photo sample no2 ) Note: there is no conclusion in this order because we are still at the beginning of the
analysis chapter of the thesis. And, please do not write the order by following the style of an article or essay, rather I need analyses