Nonword repetition (NWR) tasks have become popular in recent years as measures of phonological short term memory (PSTM) in research settings, and as potential markers of language impairment in clinical settings. This has increased interest in the subskills that potentially NWR performance. The current study investigated the influence of PSTM, vocabulary skills, articulatory output skills, liter...

Increasing working memory (WM) capacity is often cited as a major influence on children's development and yet WM capacity is difficult to examine independently of long-term knowledge. A computational model of children's nonword repetition (NWR) performance is presented that independently manipulates long-term knowledge and WM capacity to determine the relative contributions of each in explainin...

Introduction: This research was planned to determine some verbal-auditory skills (verbal-auditory short memory and phonological awareness) that have the closest relationship with speech and language development in 5-year-old children. Method: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 400 children of pre-school classes affiliated to Education and Welfare organizations in Semnan city were select...

In this paper we present a model of abstract phonological representations in children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). We report results from a new non-word repetition test, the Test Of Phonological Structure (TOPhS, van der Lely & Harris, 1999), which systematically varies syllabic complexity. G-SLI children have difficulty repeating non-words containing consonant cluster...

Purpose: Pronouncing a novel word for the first time requires the transformation of a newly encoded speech signal into a series of coordinated, exquisitely timed oromotor movements. Individual differences in children's ability to repeat novel nonwords are associated with vocabulary development and later literacy. Nonword repetition (NWR) is often used to test clinical populations. While phonolo...

In this paper, I study the production of consonant clusters by Greek children and examine the consequences of the acquisition data for phonological theory, with particular emphasis on the word-initial position. Using a non-word repetition test, I tested the order of acquisition of wordinitial and word-medial s+obstruent (sT), obstruent-obstruent (TT) and obstruent-sonorant (TR) clusters in 59 c...

This critical review examines whether expressive language characteristics are able to distinguish children with Specific Language Impairment from children who are learning English as a Second Language. Overall, the research suggests that there is significant overlap between the two groups in the amount and types of errors made on expressive language tasks such as use of tense and morphology. Ho...

repetition is one technique in language of poetry through which a word or phrase has various technical implications that impress the reader. the skillful poet, who can direct the word to be worthwhile and sensuous, is able to do that work.the value of this kind of repetition rises due to its implications where the poet owns verbal and emotional originality. if there is any defect in his talent,...

Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) have difficulty with, amongst other things, non-word repetition tasks. This paper presents preliminary research into the nature of the phonological deficit in SLI. We report results from four SLI children tested on a new set of non-words which, unlike previous sets, takes metrical and syllabic complexity into account. Most errors occur in non-wor...