The ability of young children to understand their own and other children's deviant phonological forms was tested. Children were better at understanding an unfamiliar adult's speech than they were at understanding their own or other childrens’ speech. Their understanding was found to be related to the degree to which the deviant speech resembled the adult phonological form. It was concluded that children do not store their own deviant phonological forms for recognition in the same way that they store adult forms.
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