Speech Sounds By Age

Here is a quick image for remembering which speech sounds are expected by which ages! This is based off of the analysis of data completed by Crowe and McLeod (2020). This also supports their original cross-linguistic review completed in 2018 (McLeod and Crowe, 2018).

Speech Sounds By 2;0-2;11

• b (as in boy)

• n (as in nose)

• m (as in mouse)

• p (as in pie)

• h (as in hello)

• w (as in water)

• d (as in dog)

Speech Sounds By 3;0-3;11

• g (as in go)

• k (as in kite)

• f (as in food)

• t (as in ten)

• ŋ (as in thing)

• j (as in yes)

Speech Sounds By 4;0-4;11

• v (as in vase)

• dʒ (as in judge)

• s (as in sew)

• tʃ (as in church)

• l (as in lily)

• ʃ (as in shoe)

• z (as in zoo)

Speech Sounds By 5;0-6;11

• ɹ (as in robot)

• ð (as in that)

• θ (as in think)

• ʒ (as in measure)

Sources

Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). Children’s English consonant acquisition in the United States: A review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00168

McLeod, S., & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100