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Martinez-Castilla, Pastora; Stojanovik, Vesna; Setter, Jane; Sotillo, Maria – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
The aim of this study was to compare the prosodic profiles of English- and Spanish-speaking children with Williams syndrome (WS), examining cross-linguistic differences. Two groups of children with WS, English and Spanish, of similar chronological and nonverbal mental age, were compared on performance in expressive and receptive prosodic tasks…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Language Processing, Spanish Speaking, Contrastive Linguistics
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Martinez-Castilla, Pastora; Peppe, Sue – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Well-documented Romance-Germanic differences in the use of accent in speech to convey information-structure and focus cause problems for the assessment of prosodic skills in populations with clinical disorders. The strategies for assessing the ability to use lexical and contrastive accent in English and Spanish are reviewed, and studies in the…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Autism, Spanish, English