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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. © American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Author(s): Stokes SF, Klee T, Carson CP, Carson D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Year: 2005
Volume: 48
Issue: 4
Pages: 817-833
Print publication date: 01/08/2005
ISSN (print): 1092-4388
ISSN (electronic): 1558-9102
Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2005/057)
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/057)
PubMed id: 16378476
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