251. Word structure and consonant interaction in a French-speaking child with protracted phonological development.
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Bérubé, Daniel and Spoor, Jessica
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VOWELS ,PHONOLOGICAL awareness ,SPEECH evaluation ,HEALTH outcome assessment ,LANGUAGE acquisition ,PRE-tests & post-tests ,CONSONANTS ,PHONETICS ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,RESEARCH funding ,SOUND - Abstract
This paper presents data from a Québec French-speaking child with protracted phonological development (PPD) who received phonological intervention based on a nonlinear phonological framework. At 5;3, he showed relative strengths in word structure compared with consonants (e.g., /s, f, v, k, ɡ/). Addressing segmental constraints in intervention led to higher overall accuracy and more consistent production of singleton consonants and word-medial consonant sequences and further gains in word structure. As part of a special cross-linguistic issue on individual profiles in PPD, the current paper provides an in-depth pre/post-treatment phonological analysis and contributes to emerging normative French-Canadian data on assessment and treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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