Last Halloween, four-year-old Jillian called the decorations at her house "punkins". This year she is able to say "pumpkins" when she describes them. In this instance, Jillian has made a gain in her use of

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Jillian's improvement from saying "punkins" to "pumpkins" demonstrates a gain in her use of phonemes, which are the distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another. In this case, the correct pronunciation of "pumpkins" involves mastering the phoneme /p/ in the correct places.

Last Halloween, Four-Year-Old Jillian Called the Decorations at Her House