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Janina Bocher – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Speech exhibits quasi-rhythmic regularities at multiple timescales, which seem to be crucial to comprehension. Both children's ability to extract rhythm from complex stimuli and to produce rhythmic patterns are known to undergo changes from infancy to adulthood. However, it remains unclear what rhythm skills specifically related to speech look…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition, Children
Janet Vuolo; Allison Kinross; Katlyn DeHart – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Rhythm is one procedural mechanism that underlies language and motor skill acquisition and has been implicated in children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). The purpose of this study is to investigate manual rhythmic sequencing skills in children with a history of or current CAS (hx/CAS) compared to children with typical development…
Descriptors: Children, Language Acquisition, Psychomotor Skills, Speech Impairments
Ansgar D. Endress – Developmental Science, 2024
In many domains, learners extract recurring units from continuous sequences. For example, in unknown languages, fluent speech is perceived as a continuous signal. Learners need to extract the underlying words from this continuous signal and then memorize them. One prominent candidate mechanism is statistical learning, whereby learners track how…
Descriptors: Syllables, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Memory
Áine Ní Choisdealbha; Adam Attaheri; Sinead Rocha; Natasha Mead; Helen Olawole-Scott; Maria Alfaro e Oliveira; Carmel Brough; Perrine Brusini; Samuel Gibbon; Panagiotis Boutris; Christina Grey; Isabel Williams; Sheila Flanagan; Usha Goswami – Developmental Science, 2024
It is known that the rhythms of speech are visible on the face, accurately mirroring changes in the vocal tract. These low-frequency visual temporal movements are tightly correlated with speech output, and both visual speech (e.g., mouth motion) and the acoustic speech amplitude envelope entrain neural oscillations. Low-frequency visual temporal…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Diagnostic Tests, Speech Communication
Regular Rhythmic Primes Improve Sentence Repetition in Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Anna Fiveash; Eniko Ladányi; Julie Camici; Karen Chidiac; Catherine T. Bush; Laure-Hélène Canette; Nathalie Bedoin; Reyna L. Gordon; Barbara Tillmann – npj Science of Learning, 2023
Recently reported links between rhythm and grammar processing have opened new perspectives for using rhythm in clinical interventions for children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Previous research using the rhythmic priming paradigm has shown improved performance on language tasks after regular rhythmic primes compared to control…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Language Impairments, Language Rhythm, Cues
Joan Birulés; Ferran Pons; Laura Bosch – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Successful language learning in bilinguals requires the differentiation of two language systems. The capacity to discriminate rhythmically close languages has been reported in 4-month-olds using auditory-only stimuli. This research offers a novel perspective on early language discrimination using audiovisual material. Monolingual and bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Infants, Bilingualism
Raneri, Daniele; Von Holzen, Katie; Newman, Rochelle; Bernstein Ratner, Nan – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Aims: Although IDS is typically described as slower than adult-directed speech (ADS), potential impacts of slower speech on language development have not been examined. We explored whether IDS speech rates in 42 mother-infant dyads at four time periods predicted children's language outcomes at two years. Method: We correlated IDS speech rate with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition
Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Igualada, Alfonso; Prieto, Pilar – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Iconic and pointing gestures are important precursors of children's early language and cognitive development. While beat gestures seem to have positive effects on the recall of information by preschoolers, little is known about the potential beneficial effects of observing beat gestures on the development of children's narrative performance. We…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Nonverbal Communication, Young Children, Observation
Morett, Laura M.; Nelson, Cailee M.; Hughes-Berheim, Sarah S.; Scofield, Jason – First Language, 2023
This research investigated whether observing beat gesture and hearing contrastive accenting with novel words enhances their learning in early childhood and whether these effects differ by sex in light of sex differences in the pace of language development. Fifty-three 3- to 5-year-old boys and girls learned pairs of novel words with contrasting…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Gender Differences, Pronunciation, Language Variation
Pérez-Navarro, Jose; Lallier, Marie; Clark, Catherine; Flanagan, Sheila; Goswami, Usha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize the local (utterance-level) temporal regularities of child-directed speech (CDS) that might facilitate phonological development in Spanish, classically termed a syllable-timed language. Method: Eighteen female adults addressed their 4-year-old children versus other adults spontaneously and also…
Descriptors: Spanish, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition, Language Rhythm
Critten, Sarah; Holliman, Andrew J.; Hughes, David J.; Wood, Clare; Cunnane, Helen; Pillinger, Claire; Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Prosodic sensitivity--the rhythmic patterning of speech--is theorized to influence reading and spelling via vocabulary knowledge, phonological, and morphological awareness. Previously this conceptual model has been evidenced with children who can already read, however as orthographic knowledge can be used to complete phonological awareness tasks…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Intonation, Spelling, Suprasegmentals
Kallay, Jeffrey E.; Dilley, Laura; Redford, Melissa A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study used a cross-sequential design to identify developmental changes in narrative speech rhythm and intonation. The aim was to provide a robust, clinically relevant characterization of normative changes in speech prosody across the early school-age years. Method: Structured spontaneous narratives were elicited annually from 60…
Descriptors: Intonation, Child Language, Longitudinal Studies, Child Development
Angeliki Athanasopoulou – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Prosody (prominence, rhythm, intonation, etc.) is crucial for using language efficiently and conveying one's intended meaning at different linguistic levels. Therefore, a child has to acquire the prosodic system of the language in order to become a competent speaker of that language. Even though the importance of prosody is well known, we still do…
Descriptors: Children, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Language Rhythm
Mathew, Mili; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine – First Language, 2018
Children are known to use different types of referential gestures (e.g., deictic, iconic) from a very young age. In contrast, their use of non-referential gestures is not well established. This study investigated the use of "stroke-defined non-referential" 'beat' gestures in a story-retelling and an exposition task by twelve 6-year-olds,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Nonverbal Communication, Intonation, Phonology
Xi, Xiaotong; Li, Peng; Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Research has shown that observing hand gestures mimicking pitch movements or rhythmic patterns can improve the learning of second language (L2) suprasegmental features. However, less is known about the effects of hand gestures on the learning of novel phonemic contrasts. This study examines (a) whether hand gestures mimicking phonetic…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Rhythm