A phonemic implicational feature hierarchy of phonological contrasts for English-speaking children
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
ISSN
1092-4388
Recommended Citation
"A phonemic implicational feature hierarchy of phonological contrasts for English-speaking children" (2005). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 5701.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/5701
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