Language delay is considered a frequent antecedent of literacy problems and both may be linked to phonological impairment. However, while several studies have examined the relationship between language delay and reading impairment, relatively few have focused on spelling. In this study, spelling performance of 28 children with developmental dyslexia (DD), 14 children with a history of language ...

BACKGROUND Phonological disorder is one of the most frequent speech and language deficit observed in children and therefore studies using objective evaluation measurements should be developed and implemented during the diagnostic process. AIM To describe the acoustic characteristics of /l/ and /r/ liquid sounds. METHOD Speech production samples of 20 children with and without phonological d...

This paper reports the initial findings from a longitudinal study on the phonological awareness skills and word reading abilities of 73 Indonesian children from Grade 1. Children were tested on syllable detection, syllable deletion, onset detection, rhyme detection, phoneme deletion, letter identification, word reading and non-word reading. Results are discussed in relation to the characteristi...

The minor prosodic unit in Korean language, generally called an Accentual Phrase, is usually defined by its syntactic or phonological characteristics. This article looks at the correlation between phonetic pitch movements and accentual phrase boundaries using a technique of pattern extraction and prediction by a probabilistic grammar.

This dissertation was motivated by two questions: 1) Do children with developmental disorders have reliable cortical characteristics that distinguish them from control children or that are unique for different disorder-subtypes? 2) Do these cortical characteristics reflect behavioural changes effectuated by an intervention? Five studies that contribute to answering these questions will be prese...

BACKGROUND Down syndrome, phonological awareness, writing and working memory. AIM to evaluate the phonological awareness of Brazilian children with Down syndrome; to analyze the relationship between the writing hypothesis and the phonological awareness scores of the participants; to compare the performance of children with Down syndrome to that of children with typical development according t...

the coalition between terms and their meaning can be as the result of phonological repetition in its speech structure and specific semantic load. this can lead to meaning distinction in choosing words and also meaning association. therefore, literally and syntactically, the phonological level cannot be separated from semantic level. earlier, the phonological association in text has been discuss...