A distinctive-features approach to the remediation of voicing errors produced by hearing-impaired adults.
An articulation training procedure based on the clinical extension of distinctive-feature theory was used in an attempt to correct selected voicing errors exhibited by eight hearing-impaired adults. The results indicate that the production of the [+ voice] feature was mastered by all subjects in the phonetic context where it was trained, but generalization of the [+ voice] feature-usage rule was not achieved by the subjects. The findings are discussed relative to the use of feature-training procedures with hearing-impaired adults.
D000328:Adult; D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000379:methods*