Title

A phonemic implicational feature hierarchy of phonological contrasts for English-speaking children

Authors

Authors

S. F. Stokes; T. Klee; C. P. Carson;D. Carson

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res.

Keywords

phonology; implicational hierarchy; phonological assessment; phonological disorders; development; PHONETIC INVENTORIES; ACQUISITION; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Linguistics; Rehabilitation

Abstract

Contrastive feature hierarchies have been developed and used for some time in depicting typical phonological-development and in guiding therapy decisions. Previous descriptions of feature use have been based on independent analyses, and usually phonetic inventories. However, recent trends in phonology include a relational analysis of phonemic inventories (D. Ingram & K. D. Ingram, 2001). The current investigation was a relational analysis of the phonemic inventories of 40 typically developing 2-year-old American-English-speaking children. Consonant inventories were derived from spontaneous speech samples using the Logical International Phonetics Programs computer software (D. K. Oller & R. E. Delgado, 1999). Cluster analysis was used to determine the grouping of contrastive features. Four levels emerged. Level I included, [consonant], [sonorant], and [coronal], Level II included [voice], Level III included [anterior], [continuant]; and [nasal], and Level IV included [lateral] and [strident]. Results suggested that the-resulting 4-level phonemic feature hierarchy might be used to classify the phonological systems of children with phonological disorders.

Journal Title

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Volume

48

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

817

Last Page

833

WOS Identifier

WOS:000233974900009

ISSN

1092-4388

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