title: Diagnosis and intervention of adult articulation errors based on distinctive feature theory and the Mysak feedback model of therapy.
abstract: This article explores the applicability of distinctive feature theory to the phonological problems of high school and college students and to a feedback model of therapy. Results suggest that high school and college students with numerous substitutions have phonological errors that can be accounted for on a distinctive feature basis. Therefore, diagnosis of such students should include a distinctive feature analysis. Pilot data also indicate that a client can be taught to differentiate between correct and incorrect features rather than correct and error phonemes, and that distinctive feature theory is applicable to a feedback model of therapy.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000379:methods*