Minimal pair distinctions and intelligibility in preschool children with and without speech sound disorders

Authors: Hodge, Megan M.; Gotzke, Carrie L.

Source: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Volume 25, Number 10, October 2011 , pp. 853-863(11)

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Abstract:

Listeners' identification of young children's productions of minimally contrastive words and predictive relationships between accurately identified words and intelligibility scores obtained from a 100-word spontaneous speech sample were determined for 36 children with typically developing speech (TDS) and 36 children with speech sound disorders (SSD) of unknown origin in three age groups (3++, 4++ and 5++ years). Each child's productions of 78-word stimuli were recorded and presented to unfamiliar adults for forced-choice identification. Results of a two-way MANOVA (two groups by three ages) indicated that the TDS group had significantly higher (p < 0.001) percent consonant items correct (PCIC) and percent syllable shape items correct. Stepwise regression analyses revealed significant predictors of intelligibility scores to be PCIC (adjusted R² == 0.10, p == 0.04) for the TDS group and PCIC and percent vowel items correct (adjusted R² == 0.63, p < 0.001) for the SSD group.

Keywords: intelligibility; child; speech sound disorders

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2011.578783

Publication date: 2011-10-01

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