Human language is primarily characterized by sounds formed and produced
by the Organs of Speech. This dissertation entitled; "A Phonological
Description of the Two-Word Stage of Language Acquisition: A Case Study
of an English-Hausa Bilingual" particularly considered the sound
development of a child at two-word stage. The area of focus includes
Articulatory Phonology-Segmental and Suprasegmental phonemes. These were
some of the approaches used to analyse and describe the sounds of
two-word utterances of the main participant of research. The aim of the
study was to document the utterances of the main participant from 20-24,
32 and 33 months, and to also conduct a phonological
investigation/inventory of phonemic sounds of the same participant Juju
and her articulation processes.

The objectives were to analyseand describe the sound constituents, both
segmental and supra segmental phonemes of the main participant,
investigate the influence of supra-segmental phonemes on the child‟s
contextual use of language, and ascertain if the child‟s language at
this stage couldbe regarded as truly connected. This was achieved via
recording of Juju‟s (name referred to the participant) utterances
consequently making repeated listening expedient. Aspects of two word
utterances in English were the units on which the investigations were
based. However, because she is bilingual, acquiring English and Hausa
simultaneously and some elements of pidgin, the other languages (Hausa
and Pidgin) were not completely disregarded in the analysis.The
three-media-techniques of; the diary, the audio and video recording
methods were employed in the data collection process. In the analysis
and description of the recorded data, the research discovered that
Juju‟s utterances were characterised by gross substitution (substitution
of one consonant with another, one vowel with another, substitution of
vowel with consonant and substitution of consonant cluster with single
consonants), reduction, simplification, inventive reduplication and
deletion/elision. The research arrived at the conclusion that Juju
employed these strategies of substitution, reduction, simplification,
inventive reduplication and deletion to articulate sounds at this stage
because her organs of speech are still developing.