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Janet Vuolo; Taylor L. Gifford – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Accurate nonword repetition (NWR) is contingent on many underlying skills, including encoding, memory and motor planning and programming. Though vowel errors are frequently associated with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), several recent studies have found that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) produce high rates of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Vowels
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Waring, Rebecca; Rickard Liow, Susan; Dodd, Barbara; Eadie, Patricia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: The conversational speech of most children can be understood by people outside the family by the time they reach 4 years. However, for some children, speech sound disorders (SSDs) persist into their early school years, and beyond, despite adequate hearing, oromotor function, and language learning opportunities. One explanation for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Phonology, Short Term Memory, Speech Impairments
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Stiles, Derek J.; McGregor, Karla K.; Bentler, Ruth A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: The more a novel word conforms to the phonotactics of the language, the more wordlike it is and the easier it is to learn. It is unknown to what extent children with hearing loss (CHL) take advantage of phonotactic cues to support word learning. Aims: This study investigated whether CHL had similar sensitivities to wordlikeness during…
Descriptors: Children, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development