Complexity and cross-linguistic transfer in intervention for Spanish-English bilingual children with speech sound disorder.

ABSTRACT: With bilingual children, intervention for speech sound disorders must consider both of the child's phonological systems, which are known to interact with each other in development. Further, cross-linguistic generalization following intervention for bilingual children with speech sound disorders (i.e., the impact of treatment in one language on the other) has been documented to varying degrees in some prior studies. However, none to date have documented the cross-linguistic impact of treatment with complex targets (e.g., consonant clusters) for bilingual children. Because complex phonological targets have been shown to induce system-wide generalization within a single language, the potential for bilingual children to generalize learning across languages could impact the efficiency of interv

SUBMITTER: Combiths P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10081515 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature