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Carlie, Johanna; Sahlén, Birgitta; Nirme, Jens; Andersson, Ketty; Rudner, Mary; Johansson, Roger; Gulz, Agneta; Brännström, K. Jonas – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study reports on the development of an auditory passage comprehension task for Swedish primary school children of cultural and linguistic diversity. It also reports on their performance on the task in quiet and in noise. Method: Eighty-eight children aged 7-9 years and showing normal hearing participated. The children were divided…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning
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Hallin, Anna Eva; Reuterskiöld, Christina – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The first aim of this study was to investigate if Swedish-speaking school-age children with language impairment (LI) show specific morphosyntactic vulnerabilities in error detection. The second aim was to investigate the effects of lexical frequency on error detection, an overlooked aspect of previous error detection studies. Method:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Language Impairments, Error Patterns
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Alm, Per A. – Brain and Language, 2006
It was hypothesized that stuttering may be related to impaired sensory gating, leading to overflow of superfluous disturbing auditory feedback and breakdown of the speech sequence. This hypothesis was tested using the "acoustic startle prepulse inhibition" (PPI) paradigm. A group of 22 adults with developmental stuttering were compared…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Inhibition, Hypothesis Testing, Adults