Background: phonological disorders.
Aim: to verify the occurrence of vocalic lengthening, through acoustic analysis, in a group of 16 children (8 boys and 8 girls) with evolutive phonological disorders (EPD), who did not present in their speech /R/ and /S/ medial codas; to verify the occurrence percentage of lengthening and omission strategies in the two types of coda.
Method: recordings of 16 children obtained through the presentation of a picture album representing the 18 pairs of words that contrast the syllabic structures (C)VC and CV.