/r/ vs /t/ Maximal Opposition Minimal Pairs

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Grades: 14,13,1,2,3

Description: Evidence-based flashcards for learning the /r/ phoneme. Also available as Boom Cards or Bundled (for a great price!) About Maximal Oppositions: The Maximal Oppositions approach (Gierut, 1989, 2001, 2007) is a type of Minimal Pair therapy. It uses words that are minimally contrasted and which have maximal or near maximal feature differences between each word pair. Features that can be contrasted are: Place, Voicing, Manner, Obstruent vs. Sonorant, Markedness-Unmarked (simple) vs. Marked (complex). One word in a pair represents a sound the child "knows" (can say at word level) and the other represents a sound the child does not know (cannot say). Gierut, J. (1989). Maximal opposition approach to phonological treatment. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 54, 9-19. Gierut, J. (2001). Complexity in phonological treatment: Clinical factors. Language, Speech, and Hearing in Schools, 32, 229-241. Gierut, J. (2007). Phonological complexity and language learnability. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16(1), 6-17