Maximal opposition approach to phonological treatment

JA Gierut - Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989 - ASHA
The purpose of this paper was to evaluate a phonological treatment program of maximal
rather than minimal feature contrasts by charting the course of learning in a child displaying …

Treatment of phonological disability using the method of meaningful minimal contrast: Two case studies

FF Weiner - Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1981 - ASHA
The results of a treatment procedure using meaningful minimal contrasts are reported. The
procedure was successful in reducing the frequency of the following processes: final …

Differential learning of phonological oppositions

JA Gierut - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1990 - ASHA
This study evaluated whether variations in the structure of minimal versus maximal
opposition treatments would result in empirical differences in phonological learning …

A minimal-word-pair model for teaching the linguistic significance of distinctive feature properties

SE Blache, CL Parsons, JM Humphreys - Journal of Speech and Hearing …, 1981 - ASHA
A word level behavioral routine for the remediation of distinctive feature errors was
developed for resolving some current theoretical criticisms of minimal-pair therapy. Seven …

The impact of selecting different contrasts in phonological therapy

B Dodd, S Crosbie, B McIntosh, A Holm… - … Journal of Speech …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Previous research indicates that the extent of progress made by children with phonological
disorders depends upon the nature of the word pairs contrasted in therapy. For example …

Relationships between acoustically determined knowledge of stop place and voicing contrasts and phonological treatment progress

AA Tyler, GR Figurski, T Langsdale - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 1993 - ASHA
The speech of 7 children with phonological disorders (4 who failed to produce an initial
voicing contrast for stops and 3 who failed to produce the alveolar-velar stop contrast) was …

Multiple oppositions: Theoretical foundations for an alternative contrastive intervention approach

AL Williams - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2000 - ASHA
A multiple opposition approach to phonological intervention is described as an alternative
contrastive approach for the treatment of severe speech disorders in children. The …

Multiple oppositions: Case studies of variables in phonological intervention

AL Williams - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2000 - ASHA
The multiple oppositions approach (Williams, 1992; 2000) was incorporated as the
beginning point of intervention for 10 children who exhibited moderate-to-profound …

Minimal pair approaches to phonological remediation

JA Barlow, JA Gierut - Seminars in speech and language, 2002 - thieme-connect.com
This article considers linguistic approaches to phonological remediation that emphasize the
role of the phoneme in language. We discuss the structure and function of the phoneme by …

Homonymy in phonological change

JA Gierut - Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the role of homonymy as a motivator of phonological change in
treatment. The relative effectiveness of two treatment structures in improving the production …