Minkina, IreneSilkes, JoAnn P.Bislick, LaurenMadden, Elizabeth BrookshireLai, VictoriaPompon, Rebecca HuntingTorrence, JanakiZimmerman, Reva M.Kendall, D.L. (Diane)2020-06-152020-06-152019-11Minkina, I., Silkes, J., Bislick, L. et al. 2019, 'The influence of phonomotor treatment on word retrieval : insights from naming errors', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 4080-4104.1092-4388 (print)1558-9102 (online)10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-19-0014http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74989PURPOSE : An increasing number of anomia treatment studies have coupled traditional word retrieval accuracy outcome measures with more fine-grained analysis of word retrieval errors to allow for more comprehensive measurement of treatment-induced changes in word retrieval. The aim of this study was to examine changes in picture naming errors after phonomotor treatment. METHOD : Twenty-eight individuals with aphasia received 60 hr of phonomotor treatment, an intensive, phoneme-based therapy for anomia. Confrontation naming was assessed pretreatment, immediately posttreatment, and 3 months posttreatment for trained and untrained nouns. Responses were scored for accuracy and coded for error type, and error proportions of each error type (e.g., semantic, phonological, omission) were compared: pre- versus posttreatment and pretreatment versus 3 months posttreatment. RESULTS : The group of treatment participants improved in whole-word naming accuracy on trained items and maintained their improvement. Treatment effects also generalized to untrained nouns at the maintenance testing phase. Additionally, participants demonstrated a decrease in proportions of omission and description errors on trained items immediately posttreatment. CONCLUSIONS : Along with generalized improved whole-word naming accuracy, results of the error analysis suggest that a global (i.e., both lexical–semantic and phonological) change in lexical knowledge underlies the observed changes in confrontation naming accuracy following phonomotor treatment.en© 2019 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPostprint Article