Unraveling phonological conspiracies: A case study

Abstract This paper focuses on three seemingly unrelated error patterns in the sound system of a child with a phonological delay, Child 218 (male, age 4 years 6 months) and ascribes those error patterns to a larger conspiracy to eliminate fricatives from the phonetic inventory. Employing Optimality...

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Published in:Clinical linguistics & phonetics 2014-07, Vol.28 (7-8), p.463-476
Main Authors: Dinnsen, Daniel A., Gierut, Judith A., Morrisette, Michele L., Rose, Darcy E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Articulation Disorders - diagnosis
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child clinical studies
Child, Preschool
Humans
Language and communication disorders
Language Development Disorders - diagnosis
Medical sciences
Optimality theory
Phonetics
phonological conspiracies
phonological delay
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Speech Production Measurement
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Summary:Abstract This paper focuses on three seemingly unrelated error patterns in the sound system of a child with a phonological delay, Child 218 (male, age 4 years 6 months) and ascribes those error patterns to a larger conspiracy to eliminate fricatives from the phonetic inventory. Employing Optimality Theory for its advantages in characterizing conspiracies, our analysis offers a unified account of the observed repairs. The contextual restrictions on those repairs are, moreover, attributed to early developmental prominence effects, which are independently manifested in another error pattern involving rhotic consonants. Comparisons are made with a published case study involving a different implementation of the same conspiracy, the intent being to disambiguate the force behind certain error patterns. The clinical implications of the account are also considered.
ISSN:0269-9206
1464-5076
DOI:10.3109/02699206.2014.926996