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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"nonword repetition"”.
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An examination of the memory and linguistic factors related to nonword repetition performance
Nonword repetition is a widely used measure of phonological working memory (PWM) especially in research into vocabulary development. However, evidence exists to suggest that measures of PWM are also influenced by long-term memory (LTM) (e.g. Watkins, 1977) and echoic memory (Frankish, 1996). Others …
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The Relationship between Social Behaviors and Working Memory in School-Age Children with Language Impairment
… peers by asking participants to repeat nine nonwords and correlating these results with social behaviors as rated by teachers. The Teacher Behavior Rating Scale (TBRS; Hart and Robinson, 1996) was used to compare social behaviors of 19 school-age children with LI to 19 age-matched peers with …
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PHONOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO READING AND SPELLING IN ENGLISH: A COMPARISON OF ENGLISH-L1, MANDARIN-L1 AND MALAY-L1 BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… TWO PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY MEASURES (DIGIT SPAN AND NONWORD REPETITION), AND LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE (RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY) TO SUBSEQUENT READING AND SPELLING PERFORMANCE WERE EXAMINED IN A LONGITUDINAL STUDY INVOLVING 7-8-YEAR-OLD BILINGUAL CHILDREN (N=82) WITH ENGLISH, MANDARIN, OR MALAY AS A FIRST …
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Effects of long-term phonological knowledge on learning new words
… from West Virginia University completed a nonword repetition task and a word learning paradigm both containing nonwords comprising of only early- or only later-developing phonemes. Results revealed a significant difference of phoneme type in both the nonword repetition and word learning …
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The Effects of Visuospatial Sequence Training with Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
… short-term memory, verbal short-term memory: nonword repetition), inhibition, and visual sequence learning. Pretraining assessments revealed significant differences between the groups on verbal tasks with both auditory and visual stimuli as well as on tasks of inhibition and visual sequencing. …
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The relation between error variability and stimulability in children with SSD
… for their error variability, stimulability, nonword repetition (NWR), and intra-word production variability. Pearson Product Moment Correlations were calculated to determine the nature of relations among these variables. Results revealed substantial relations between error variability and …
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Promoting emerging literacy skills of Malaysian indigenous children through shared-book reading
… naming task (RAN), and a Children’s Nonword Repetition test (CNRep). After a five-week intervention, all students were assessed on a second literacy screening test (LINUS 2), vocabulary, storytelling, motivation, and Malay language learning attitudes. Results showed that experiences …
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Foreign Language Acquisition among Children with Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
… L1 receptive ability, performance on a nonword repetition task, and L1 expressive ability were found to significantly correlate with FL acquisition. Finally, the qualitative and quantitative data was combined to provide an overall language acquisition profile of each child who …
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Foreign Language Acquisition Among Children With Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
… L1 receptive ability, performance on a nonword repetition task, maternal education, and L1 expressive ability were found to significantly correlate with FL acquisition. Finally, the qualitative and quantitative data was combined to provide an overall language acquisition profile of each …
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There's more to the picture than meets the ear - Gaze behavior during communication in children with hearing impairment
… services, and call for an evaluation of nonword repetition as a clinical marker allowing earlier identification of children with hearing impairment at risk for persistent language impairment.
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Examining Cognitive Processing in Children with an Arithmetic Disability
… on measures of phonological awareness, nonword repetition, serial processing speed, or serial naming speed. In contrast, children with AD/WRD demonstrated impairments on measures of phonological awareness, phonological short-term memory, isolated naming speed, serial processing speed, …
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Evaluation of a Screening Battery for Developmental Language Disorder
… 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 Language …
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The Association between Reading Comprehension and Prerequisite Skills for Children in Poverty
… of Nonverbal Intelligence, 3rd edition and the Nonword Repetition Task.</p> <p>These results are consistent with previous studies that show that poverty or low SES has a negative effect on language skills and that children from low SES families are more likely to experience limited language and …
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Phonological working memory and finiteness marking in typical development
… phonological working memory (PWM) as indexed on nonword repetition (NWR) tasks, and finiteness-related grammatical processing, as indexed by grammaticality judgment. These fundamental language abilities make particularly alluring candidates for investigation due to their central role in language …
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Phonologisches Arbeitsgedächtnis bei dysgrammatisch-sprachgestörten Kindern
… Psychology, 63(1), 44-78. Bowey, J. A. (2001). Nonword repetition and young children`s receptive vocabulary: a longitudinal study. Applied Psycholinguistics, 22, 441-469. Gathercole, S. E. & Baddeley, A. D. (1990a). Phonological memory deficits in language disordered children: Is there a cusal …
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English syllable confusion and imitation in Korean bilingual and monolingual children and adults
… Nonsense Syllable Imitation Task (NSIT) and the Nonword Repetition Task (NRT; Dollaghan & Campbell, 1998). The present study examined (a) which English sounds on the NSCM task were identified less well, presumably due to interference from Korean phonology, in bilinguals learning English as a …