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Semin Speech Lang 2016; 37(04): 280-290
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1587704
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Nexus to Lexis: Phonological Disorders in Children

Judith A. Gierut
1   Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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04 October 2016 (online)

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Abstract

Research on phonological disorders in children has conventionally emphasized the speech sound in search of causes, diagnoses, treatments, and prevention of the disorder. This article aims to shift the research focus to the word instead. The motivation comes from advances in psycholinguistics that demonstrate the word is central to the perception, production, and acquisition of phonological information. Three strands of potential study are outlined in evaluation of how words might initiate and boost, but perhaps also, interrupt learning for children with phonological disorders.

Keywords

Lexicon - phonology - phonological disorders - phonological treatment
 

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