Minimal pairs consonants
Word Lists: Minimal PairsDetailsCreated: Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:27Updated on Wednesday, 07 September 2016 10:26SLP/SLT, ESL/EFLOn this page you will find links to related pages that contain pictures and words for working with children with speech sound disorders. Below these links are minimal pair word lists for speech-language pathology / speech and language therapy (SLP/SLT) intervention. For the most part the word-pairs are 'picturable' and child-friendly. Show
The minimal pairs may also be useful for English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning purposes. Related PagesWord ListsWord Lists for Focused Auditory Input, Phonological Intervention, and Articulation Therapy Word and Picture WorksheetsWorksheets: Consonants, Clusters, Vowels Do you come here often? Are the resources useful? They are? Then please consider donating to the upkeep of this site. THANK YOU! How many exemplars?There are many minimal pairs to choose from here, but in selecting target words for phonological therapy it is definitely not a case of 'more is better'. Elbert, Powell and Swartzlander (1991) found that they could teach as few as 3 to 5 minimal pairs in order for their participants to show spontaneous generalisation to other words containing the target sounds. Elbert, M., Powell, T. W., & Swartzlander, P. (1991). Toward a technology of generalization: How many exemplars are sufficient? Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 34, 81-87. Minimal PairsThe vocabulary on this page represents (non-rhotic) Australian English pronunciation, and although most of the minimal pairs will 'work' in other dialects of English you may need to discard some. For example, pairs like saw-shore, and spa-star are minimal pairs in Australian English and in other non-rhotic varieties of English, but not in rhotic dialects such as Canadian, Irish, Scottish and most US 'Englishes'.
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