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Barlow, Jessica A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2001
This article introduces a clinical forum that considers a variety of theoretical and analytical frameworks that have been applied to developing systems in phonological theory and treatment. It explains phonological theory, in which sound properties that are marked in language are those sounds that are most complex. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education
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Barlow, Jessica A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2001
A case study of a 3-year-old with a phonological disorder is used to demonstrate the application of optimality theory to the assessment and treatment. A tutorial of the theory is provided and then several prototypical error patterns evident in the child's productions are analyzed within the framework. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
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Barlow, Jessica A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2001
This article concludes a forum that considered theoretical and analytical frameworks applied to developing systems in phonological theory and treatment. It discusses the role of complexity in target selection of children with language impairments: error pattern interaction and complexity; complexity, treatment, and constraint demotion; and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language)