Phonetics: Fundamentals, Potential Applications and Role in Communicative Disorders

✍ Scribed by Jasmine Davis (editor)

• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Series: Languages and Linguistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) occurs in 6.3% of children, twice as much in males than females. Deficits in phonology may include difficulties with early speech sound production, and/or weak phonological awareness skills, resulting in struggles with reading and writing. Chapter 1 reviews the most relevant research published that informs the definition, identification and treatment of expressive language impairment (ELI) in children ages 3 to 10 years old, with a focus on phonetic and phonological interventions. Chapter 2 explores the place of coarticulation in the phonology/phonetics dichotomy, relating coarticulating to what may in essence be viewed as its phonological counterpart - assimilation. Chapter 3 addresses how an approach based on phonological principles can be a reliable method for the speech intervention in children with cleft palate and compensatory articulation errors. A categorically stratified scale for classifying compensatory articulation errors according to severity and response to therapy is described. Finally, some strategies for speech intervention which are more suitable for a phonological and linguistic intervention are presented. The chapter explains how is that selecting the strategies to be used during the intervention according the severity of the articulation errors seem to increase their effectiveness.

✦ Table of Contents

PHONETICS FUNDAMENTALS, POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS AND ROLE IN COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS
PHONETICS FUNDAMENTALS, POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS AND ROLE IN COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Chapter 1 PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATED WITH EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Specific Language Impairment with a Focus on Expressive Language Deficits: Definition and Prevalence
1.2. The Correlates of Expressive Language Impairment and Rationale for Their Study in Relation to Other Language Domains
2. PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT
3. THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, PROSODY, SYNTAX, AND RELATIONS TO EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE DEFICITS
4. COMMONLY USED INTERVENTIONS TO TREAT EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT
4.1. Phonetic Perception and Phonological Processes
4.2. Morphological and Syntactic Processes
5. IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATION, WRITTEN LANGUAGE, AND COMMON CORE CURRICULUM
5.1. Implications for Social Communication
5.1.1. Computer Assisted and Non-Computer Assisted Treatments of Expressive Language Deficits
5.1.2. Speech/Language Therapy As an Intervention Method to Treat Phonological Difficulties Involved in Expressive Language Deficits
5.1.3. Intervention Methods that Include Parents, Teachers, and Schools in the Treatment of Expressive Language Deficits
5.2. Implications for Written Language and Written Communication
5.3. Implications for Common-Core Curriculum
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
REFERENCES
Chapter 2 COARTICULATION
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. GENERAL ACCOUNT OF COARTICULATION
3. THEORIES AND MODELS OF COARTICULATION
3.1. Background
3.2. Speech Economy Theory
3.3. Window Model of Coarticulation
3.4. Coproduction Theory
4. MEASURING COARTICULATION
4.1. Imaging Techniques
4.2. Electropalatography
4.3. Electromyography
5. COARTICULATION AND ASSIMILATION
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 3 SPEECH INTERVENTION FOR CORRECTING COMPENSATORY ARTICULATION IN CHILDREN WITH CLEFT PALATE
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
PHONOLOGICALLY BASED INTERVENTION FOR CHILDREN WITH CLEFT PALATE AND COMPENSATORY ARTICULATION ERRORS
SCALE FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SEVERITY OF COMPENSATORY ARTICULATION ERRORS
STRATEGIES
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX