objective : the major objective of this study was to determine the means and 95% confidence interval of normal 6 years old children's motor-verbal skills. based on the results of this study we could develop a measure to diagnose abnormal motor skills. in addition, in this follow-up study, we compared the first-graders' motor-verbal skills to their own skills one year earlier. method: ...

The non-repetitive complexity function of an infinite word x (first defined by Moothathu) is the function of n that counts the number of distinct factors of length n that appear at the beginning of x prior to the first repetition of a length-n factor. We examine general properties of the non-repetitive complexity function, as well as obtain formulas for the non-repetitive complexity of the Thue...

https://doi.org/10.5128/ERYa19.06This study introduces a Lithuanian non-word repetition test and explores methodological issues by comparing two stimuli presentation conditions (live mode vs audio mode). The aims to discuss of the its potential consequences for results. sample comprises 100 typically developing children (2 age groups: 4;00–4;11 5;00–5;11). inquiry assessed impact on accuracy ta...

Introduction: Speech sound disorders (SSD) are the largest group of communication disorders observed in children requirin education services. However, to date, the neurological origin of SSD has not been researched extensively. We conducted a fu MRI (fMRI) study using the HUSH (Hemodynamics Unrelated to Sounds from Hardware) technique on 6 participants with SS of unknown etiology in comparison ...

objectives: the purpose of this research was to explore the possible differences in the working memory of monolingual (persian) and bilingual  (persian-baluchi) children. we wanted to examine if there is a statistically significant relationship between working memory and bilingualism. methods: four working memory (wm) tests, assessing three wm components, were administered to 140 second grade s...

Purpose: There is general consensus that the ability to repeat nonsense words is related to vocabulary size in young children, but there is considerable debate about the nature of the relationship and the mechanisms that underlie it. Research with adults has proposed a shared neural substrate for nonword repetition (NWR) and language production, but this has been little explored in children. Me...

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...

Two studies test the hypotheses that individual differences in phonological memory among children younger than two years can be assessed using a non-word repetition task (NWR) and that these differences are related to the children's rates of vocabulary development. NWR accuracy, real word repetition accuracy and productive vocabulary were assessed in 15 children between 1 ; 9 and 2 ; 0 in Study...