The child has developed categories of speech sounds called Phonemes in the Perceptual Stage.

• Considerable time is spent in the early elementary grades in developing the child’s inventory of percepts.

• In terms of the vocal mechanism, the child has acquired auditory percepts. We have called them phonemes and they are categories of sounds which make up the units of the language the child is learning, and the speech sounds she will hear.

• Please switch to the graphic version to see the illustration of an examination of WET SAND which IS ROUGH AND GRITTY.

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