The major purpose was to study the degree to which the vocabularies of preschool children are organized phonologically. Forty isolated sounds of English were presented to four- and five-year-old children, and they were asked to give several words containing the sounds. The 40 sounds were ranked according to the number of appropriate examples given to each. The appropriate examples given to each sound were also ranked.
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