Resumen de On the lawfulness of change in phonetic inventories
D. A. Dinnsen, Steven B Chin, Mary Elbert
Changes in the phonetic inventories of 34 children (ages 3;4 to 6;8) with functional (nonorganic) speech disorders were analyzed in terms of distinctive feature oppositions. All subjects received conventional minimal pair contrast treatment to induce changes in their phonetic inventories. The changes were found to be governed by the same principles that govern cross-sectional variation before treatment. Sounds were added (or lost) consistent with implicational relationships among feature distinctions as set forth in Dinnsen, Chin, Elbert and Powell (1990).
