DEVELOPMENT OF PHONOLOGICAL CATEGORIES

描述（由申请人提供）：目的是了解功能性（非器质性）语音延迟儿童的语音系统发展。计划进行六个项目，以评估儿童在心理词汇库中重组单词表征的方式。每个项目都采用单受试者实验性临床治疗来诱导声音系统的重组。假设是，语音重组将受到儿童表征最初的结构、组织和从词汇中获取的方式的影响。这些假设源于当代语言学和心理语言学模型，可能有助于形成语言和语言加工的综合观点。本研究结果对功能性语音迟缓儿童的治疗设计、实施和疗效具有临床应用价值。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim is to understand development of the sound system by children with functional (nonorganic) phonological delays. Six projects are planned to evaluate the way in which children restructure their representation of words in the mental lexicon. Each project utilizes single-subject experimental clinical treatment to induce restructuring of the sound system. The hypotheses are that phonological restructuring will be influenced by the way in which children's representations are initially structured, organized and accessed from the lexicon. These hypotheses derive from contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic models to potentially contribute to an integrated view of language and language processing. The outcome of this research holds clinical application in the design, implementation and efficacy of treatment for children with functional phonological delays.