How do children ascribe gender to nouns? A study of Spanish-speaking children with and without specific language impairment.

abstract：:An acoustic-perceptual investigation was performed on fundamental frequency (F(0)) contours associated with lexical tones in the speech of one 21-year-old adult speaker of Thai who did not start speaking until age 7. Thai is a tone language with five lexically contrastive tones-mid, low, falling, high, and rising. Mea...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Gandour J,Petty SH,Dardarananda R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of Conversation Analysis (CA) to the investigation of agrammatic aphasia reveals that utterances produced by speakers with agrammatism engaged in everyday conversation differ significantly from utterances produced in response to decontextualised assessment and therapy tasks. Early studies have demonstr...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Beeke S,Beckley F,Best W,Johnson F,Edwards S,Maxim J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent approaches to the study of language disorders in adults with focal brain damage (aphasia) have interpreted aphasic symptoms as impairments of particular aspects of the normal language system. Two distinct approaches along these lines, clinical linguistics and cognitive neuropsychology, have developed in paralle...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Mitchum CC,Berndt RS

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have examined the ability of individuals with learning disabilities, in general, or with Down syndrome, specifically, to discriminate speech. The purpose of this study was compare the speech discrimination abilities of eight children with Down syndrome (aged 5.7 to 12.8 years) to seven nonverbal mental-age...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Keller-Bell Y,Fox RA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on consonant productions by a group of children with cri du chat syndrome (CdCS) and examines how various aspects of these productions contribute to these children's overall intelligibility. Eight children and adolescents with CdCS participated in the study, and the following four questions were a...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Kristoffersen KE,Garmann NG,Simonsen HG

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent interest in gesture has led to an understanding of the development of gesture and speech in typically developing young children. Research suggests that initially gesture and speech form two independent systems which combine together temporally and semantically before children enter the two-word period of langua...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Sowden H,Perkins M,Clegg J

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzed narratives from 18 Mandarin-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 18 typically developing children matched on chronological age. The narrative data were based on Frog, where are you? Participant's narratives were analyzed at the macrostructure and microstructure levels. Rega...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Torng PC,Sah WH

更新日期：2020-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoneme production may be affected by limited speech motor control in Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), with a general instability of acoustic targets across multiple repetitions of speech stimuli. This acoustic and Ultrasound Tongue Imaging (UTI) study shows that increased variability and reduction of contrast in vo...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Lenoci G,Celata C,Ricci I,Chilosi A,Barone V

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalization refers to the extension of learned behaviours to novel conditions, and it is one of the criteria by which the effectiveness and efficiency of a remediation programme may be judged. This article extracts principles of generalization from the treatment literature, and provides examples of how this informa...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Miccio AW,Powell TW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers the idea of developing a clinical sociolinguistics. Various areas of the field are examined, and the importance of the 'core' area of the correlation of non-linguistic variables with linguistic variables stressed. Issues concerning language and class, region, sex, age and context of utterance are ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Ball MJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates 39 different phonetic inventories of 16 Spanish-speaking children (ages 0;11 to 5;1) in terms of hierarchical complexity. Phonetic featural differences are considered in order to evaluate the proposed implicational hierarchy of Dinnsen et al.'s phonetic inventory typology for English. The children...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Cataño L,Barlow JA,Moyna MI

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phonetic inventories of 122 typically developing Cantonese-speaking children, aged from 0;10 to 4;7, were examined in terms of feature distinctions. The applicability of Dinnsen. Chin, Elbert and Powell's implicational feature hierarchy to these data was investigated. Results show that modifications to the hierarc...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Stokes SF,To CK

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in voice onset time (VOT) between speakers of standard American English (AE) and Indian English (IE) in a continuous speech context. The participants were 20 AE speakers, who were native to the Northeastern Pennsylvania region, and 20 IE speakers from the...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Awan SN,Stine CL

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to analyse speech perception of children with cochlear implants (N = 29) and children fitted with traditional hearing aids (N = 20). One- and two-syllable words were presented auditorily in a forced choice minimal-pair discrimination task. The children repeated the word and pointed to the appr...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Mildner V,Sindija B,Zrinski KV

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is a widely used therapeutic intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) yet there has been little research into the interactional organization of ABA sessions. We report a comparative case study of two interactions in which the same child, a 12-year-old boy with ASD,...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Rae JP,Ramey M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are some children with speech and/or language difficulties who are significantly more difficult to understand in connected speech than in single words. The study reported here explores the between-word behaviours of three such children, aged 11;8, 12;2 and 12;10. It focuses on whether these patterns could be acc...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Newton C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of children with specific language impairment (SLI, now known as Developmental Language Disorder) remains challenging. Morphosyntax difficulties have been proposed as potential linguistic 'markers' for SLI across a number of languages. This study investigates the existence of such a clinical marker in G...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Hasselaar J,Letts C,McKean C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined potential influences of cultural and linguistic background on PPVT-4 performance in a community sample of preschool-age children from low-SES households. We did this by evaluating PPVT-4 item-level performance across African American and Hispanic children from low-income families. We compare...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Finneran DA,Heilmann JJ,Moyle MJ,Chen S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this research was to assess the support for motor speech disorders as explanatory constructs to guide research and treatment of reduced intelligibility in persons with Down syndrome (DS). Participants were the 45 adolescents with DS in the prior paper who were classified into five mutually-exclusive motor ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Wilson EM,Abbeduto L,Camarata SM,Shriberg LD

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies reported the presence of language impairments in children and adolescents with Klinefelter syndrome (KS). However, the first stage of their language development has been scarcely studied. The present study aimed to describe the spontaneous communicative production of 18-month-old children with KS, in comp...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Zampini L,Burla T,Silibello G,Dall'Ara F,Rigamonti C,Lalatta F,Vizziello P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of embodiment in communication is attracting an increased interest. This interest is to some extent caused by hypotheses and findings concerning mirror neurons in macaques, that is, neurons that are activated by production as well as perception of, for example, a certain movement of action. Mirror neurons see...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Ahlsén E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents a novel approach for the early detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild Alzheimer's disease (mAD) in the elderly. Participants were 25 elderly controls (C), 25 clinically diagnosed MCI and 25 mAD patients, included after a clinical diagnosis validated by CT or MRI and cognitive tests. ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Vincze V,Szatlóczki G,Tóth L,Gosztolya G,Pákáski M,Hoffmann I,Kálmán J

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the adaptation of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) to the Rarotongan dialect of Cook Islands Maori, a Polynesian language spoken in the Cook Islands and expatriate communities. A brief linguistic sketch of Rarotongan is presented. As Rarotongan is characterised by a complex pronominal system, 'a...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Amberber AM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare early speech and language development of children with and without cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) in the US and Slovakia from 6 to 24 months of age. Thirty-two children from the US (eight with CLP and eight noncleft) and Slovakia (eight with CLP and eight noncleft) participated ...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Scherer NJ,Oravkinova Z,McBee MT

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to contribute to the description of the speech production deficits in French-speaking aphasic patients, so as to shed light on their potential phonetic and/or phonological disorders. Acoustic studies of aphasics' speech productions remain relatively infrequent, especially in French, and...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Verhaegen C,Delvaux V,Fagniart S,Huet K,Piccaluga M,Harmegnies B

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been observed that persons with Cri du chat syndrome (CDCS) have poor language production. However, very few studies have addressed the question whether all aspects of language production are equally afflicted, or whether there are differences between for instance phonological and morphological abilities. The p...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Wium K,Kristoffersen KE

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether children's use of subject relative clauses differs as a function of their English dialect (African American English, AAE vs. Southern White English, SWE vs. Mainstream American English, MAE) and clinical diagnosis (specific language impairment, SLI vs. typically developing, TD). The data we...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Oetting JB,Newkirk BL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that the production of third-person singular accusative object clitics (3DO clitics) might be taxing in Italian-speaking pre-school children with cochlear implants (CIs). We investigated this topic by assessing 3DO clitic production in 14 children with an average age of 8 years, who had rec...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Giustolisi B,Guasti MT,Nicastri M,Mancini P,Palma S,Genovese E,Arosio F

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease which, in addition to affecting motor and cognitive functions, may involve language disorders. Despite the importance of speech and language disorders in the quality of life of patients, there are only a few studies about language and speech production difficul...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： Svindt V,Bóna J,Hoffmann I

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locus equations derived from productions by three children with hearing loss revealed sensory and motor influences on anticipatory coarticulation. Participants who received auditory access to speech via hearing aids and cochlear implants at different ages (5-39 months) were recorded at approximately 6 and 12 months af...

journal_title：Clinical linguistics & phonetics

authors： McCaffrey Morrison H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00