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The same way as morphemes are single lexical entries that have three distinctĬompartments hosting syntactic, phonological and semantic information). Linear string of phonologically relevant items is made of segments, and (asĮx-plained in sections 5.3 and 5.4) segments are single lexical entries thatĭecom-pose into thee compartments, , (in Question is that it is not sonority itself that melodic computation appeals to,īut the output of the sonority-based computation, i.e. Linearity) but sonority and melody are incommunicado, how come melodicĬomputation has access to sonority-generated information? The answer to this If syllable structure is a function of sonority (and Trivially, say, l-vocalization occurs in coda position and vowel harmony isĪ re-lationship between nuclei. Of course melodicĬomputation is sensitive to syllable structure, which is an efflux of sonority.

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(You can download our free carrier phrase pack here.Finally, another condition needs to be met when sonority / syllable structureĪnd melody are segregated: syllable structure sensitivity.

To make the tasks more difficult, and to speed up generalisation, combine the targets words with carrier phrases.

True clusters with a sonority difference of 6: tw- words (PDF and audio file).

True clusters with a sonority difference of 6: kw- words (PDF and audio file).

Included in this 31-page (+7 audio files) true clusters with a sonority difference of six pack are the following audio files (.mp3) and PDFs: In particular, we’ve found that working with complex targets often results in bigger improvements in a student’s general intelligibility. But we’ve found that working on complex targets – using a Complexity Approach – gives you much more “bang for your buck” than targeting early-developing single consonants in word initial, final and medial positions. Yes, students need to have some motivation and resilience to give them a go. In this pack, we include complex cluster targets.

the child doesn’t know/cannot yet produce accurately and.

targeting fricatives rather than stops, true clusters rather single sounds, clusters with low sonority differences, rather than high (or negative) sonority differences) The key idea, here, is that speech pathologists should prioritise speech sound targets that:

Semi-vowel ‘liquid’ and glide sounds like /l/ and /r/ are more complex than sounds made through your nose, like /n/.

Long, “hissy” sounds called “fricatives” (like /f/ and /s/) are more complex than short “stops” like /p/ and /t/.

Affricates like “j” or “ch” are more complex than fricatives like /f/ or /s/.

True consonant clusters like /pl/, /sw/ and /fr/ are more complex than affricates like “j” or “ch”.

True consonant clusters (like /tw/, /pl/, /br/, and /fl/) are more complex than so-called “adjunct clusters” like /sp/, /st/ and /sk/.

So-called “small-sonority-difference clusters” like /sm/, /sn/ and /mj/(as is “music”) are more complex than “large-sonority-difference clusters” like /tw/, /kw/ and /pl/.

Three sound clusters (like /spl/, /skw/ and /spr/) are more complex than two sound clusters (like /sl/ and /pr/).

They rely on choosing good targets that transfer to other speech sounds without having to work on every speech sound in every word position.Ĭomplexity theory tells us that some consonant sounds are more complex than others. These approaches seek to bring about permanent, big changes to a student’s phonological system and to make students more intelligible. For children with moderate-severe phonological speech sound disorders, we use three main evidence-based approaches in our clinic:

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