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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Sentence Repetition"”.
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A study of the relationship between auditory memory span and sentence repetition.
… to investigate auditory memory as it relates to sentence repetition. Three questions were investigated: Is the ability to repeat a grammatically complex sentence the result of mastery of the rules of the grammatical relations for that particular sentence form? Is the ability to repeat a …
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Evaluation of a Screening Battery for Developmental Language Disorder
… administered a screening battery that included sentence repetition, nonword repetition, listening comprehension, expressive vocabulary, receptive vocabulary, synonyms, and paired associate learning. All students were then administered the Core Language subtests from the Clinical Evaluation of …
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Which skills influence pre-school children’s repetition of words, non-words and sentences?
… on pre-school children’s non-word, word and sentence repetition (NWR, WR and SR). Previous studies have revealed that children with language difficulties find these tasks difficult, but there is debate about which skills are measured. This study aimed to contribute to this understanding. …
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A Hierarchy of Grammatical Difficulty for Japanese EFL Learners: Multiple-Choice Items and Processability Theory
… theory is based on natural speech data, a sentence repetition test was also conducted in order to compare the result with the order obtained from the multiple-choice tests and the order predicted by processability theory. The participants were 872 Japanese university students, whose TOEIC …
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The application of linear and nonlinear estimators of acoustic variability in the assessment of speech motor control in hypokinetic dysarthria
… participated in the study. A series of sentence repetition tasks was devised with varying linguistic, cognitive and motor demands. A range of time-varying speech features was extracted from the acoustic signal in order to capture speech motor performance in a number of segmental and …
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The Development of an Instrument to Screen Children at Risk for Attention Deficit Disorder
… for sequencing, selective attention, and sentence repetition--to generate responses from two groups of students. The intent was to determine if the linear combination of variables or some subset of them could discriminate between the ADD and nonADD groups.</p> <p>Method. The items in each …
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Assessing early sociocognitive and language skills in young Saudi children
… (SCogQ); language measures included the Sentence Repetition test (Wallan, Chiat, & Roy, 2011), a new Arabic research adaptation of the Language Use Inventory (O’Neill, 2009), and a preschool adapted version of the Arabic Picture Vocabulary Test (Shaalan, 2010). Since this project was …
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Why young children fail to understand ‘before’ and ‘after’
… - that signal the order of events in two-clause sentences, and to establish the reasons for difficulties with these linguistic devices. Chapter 1 reviews the literature that is considered relevant to the experimental work. In the experimental work (Chapters 2 to 4), children’s comprehension and …
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Transdiagnostic approach to language and cognition in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease
… underlying the core deficit of phrase and sentence repetition in lvPPA. This thesis provides improved clinical characterisation of lvPPA across disease severity which has the potential to help patients, families, and clinicians to set expectations, manage symptoms, and initiate support.