Longitudinal interrelations between nonword repetition and vocabulary from age three to five: Evidence for within-child processes?

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 1423-1438
Author(s):  
Jessica A. Willard ◽  
Alexandru Agache ◽  
Katharina Kohl ◽  
Lilly-Marlen Bihler ◽  
Birgit Leyendecker
Keyword(s):  
Nonword Repetition

Nonword Repetition Skills in Gulf Arabic–Speaking Children With Developmental Language Disorder

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (11) ◽  
pp. 3700-3713
Author(s):  
Saleh Shaalan
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Processing ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Developmental Language Disorder ◽  
Gulf Arabic ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Phonological Complexity

Purpose This study examined the performance of Gulf Arabic–speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) on a Gulf Arabic nonword repetition (GA-NWR) test and compared it to their age- and language-matched groups. We also investigated the role of syllable length, wordlikeness, and phonological complexity in light of NWR theories. Method A new GA-NWR test was conducted with three groups of Gulf Arabic–speaking children: school-age children with DLD, language-matched controls (LCs), and age-matched controls (ACs). The test consisted of two- and three-syllable words that either had no clusters, medial clusters, final clusters, or medial + final clusters. Results The GA-NWR distinguished between the performance of children with DLD and the LC and AC groups. Results showed significant syllable length, wordlikeness, and phonological complexity effects. Differences between the DLD and typically developing groups were seen in two- and three-syllable nonwords; however, when compared on nonwords with no clusters, children with DLD were not significantly different from the LC group. Conclusions The GA-NWR test differentiated between children with DLD and their ACs and LCs. Findings, therefore, support its clinical utility in this variety of Arabic. Results showed that phonological processing factors, such as phonological complexity, may have stronger effects when compared to syllable length effects. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12996812

Children's Nonword Repetition Tasks and English Language Learners

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Sara C. Steele ◽  
Deborah A. Hwa-Froelich
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
English Language ◽  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Bilingual Speakers ◽  
Internationally Adopted Children ◽  
English Speaking

Nonword repetition performance has been shown to differentiate monolingual English-speaking children with language impairment (LI) from typically developing children. These tasks have been administered to monolingual speakers of different languages and to simultaneous and sequential bilingual English Language Learners (ELLs) with mixed results. This article includes a review of the nonword repetition performance of monolingual and bilingual speakers and of internationally adopted children. Clinical implications for administration and interpretation of nonword repetition task outcomes are included.

Nonword repetition in lexical decision: Evidence for two opposing processes

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rene Zeelenberg ◽  
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers ◽  
Mark Steyvers ◽  
Richard M. Shiffrjn ◽  
Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Nonword Repetition

scholarly journals A Language Screening Protocol for Use With Young African American Children in Urban Settings

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Washington ◽  
Holly K. Craig
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Language Impairments ◽  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
African American Children ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Screening Protocol ◽  
Assessment Measures ◽  
American Children ◽  
Language Screening

Language screenings represent an important tool for early identification of language impairments in young children between 3 and 5 years of age. This investigation examined the utility of a well-established set of assessment measures for screening young African American children. One hundred and ninety-six children participated in the screening. Based upon the outcomes of the screening, 25 children who failed and a random sample of 56 children who passed were administered a larger language and cognitive assessment battery. Sensitivity and specificity of the screening were determined to be high. The number of different words, the Kaufman Nonverbal Scale, and nonword repetition accounted for a significant amount of the variance in performance. The screening is brief, valid, and culturally fair for use with preschool- and kindergarten-aged African American children living in urban settings.

scholarly journals Cross-Language Nonword Repetition by Bilingual and Monolingual Children

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Windsor ◽  
Kathryn Kohnert ◽  
Kelann F. Lobitz ◽  
Giang T. Pham
Keyword(s):  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
Cross Language

scholarly journals Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of phonological structure: Evidence from Polish–English bilingual children

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO TAMBURELLI ◽  
EIRINI SANOUDAKI ◽  
GARY JONES ◽  
MICHELLE SOWINSKA
Keyword(s):  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Phonological Structure ◽  
English Bilingual ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Phonological Complexity ◽  
Repetition Task ◽  
Selection Of

This study examines the production of consonant clusters in simultaneous Polish–English bilingual children and in language-matched English monolinguals (aged 7;01–8;11). Selection of the language pair was based on the fact that Polish allows a greater range of consonant clusters than English. A nonword repetition task was devised in order to examine clusters of different types (obstruent-liquid vs. s + obstruent) and in different word positions (initial vs. medial), two factors that play a significant role in repetition accuracy in monolingual acquisition (e.g., Kirk & Demuth, 2005). Our findings show that bilingual children outperformed monolingual controls in the word initial s + obstruent condition. These results indicate that exposure to complex word initial clusters (in Polish) can accelerate the development of less phonologically complex clusters (in English). This constitutes significant new evidence that the facilitatory effects of bilingual acquisition extend to structural phonological domains. The implications that these results have on competing views of phonological organisation and phonological complexity are also discussed.

scholarly journals Demonstrating a wordlikeness effect on nonword repetition performance in a conduction aphasic patient

2003 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akie Saito ◽  
Takako Yoshimura ◽  
Tohru Itakura ◽  
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
Keyword(s):  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
Aphasic Patient

scholarly journals Bilingual performance on nonword repetition in Spanish and English

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 480-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie Summers ◽  
Thomas M. Bohman ◽  
Ronald B. Gillam ◽  
Elizabeth D. Peña ◽  
Lisa M. Bedore
Keyword(s):  
Nonword Repetition
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