UNLABELLED Past research has suggested that children who stutter (CWS) may have less well-developed language skills than fluent children, and that such relative linguistic deficiencies may play a role in precipitating their disfluencies. However, data to support this position are primarily derived from results of standardized diagnostic inventories, which are originally designed to identify fra...

Background: The cognitive bases of language impairment in specific language impairment (SLI) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were investigated in a novel nonword comparison task which manipulated phonological short term memory (PSTM) and speech perception, both implicated in poor nonword repetition. Aims: This study aimed to investigate the contributions of PSTM and speech perception in non...

In this study 160 children, aged 11 years with a definite history of specific language impairment (SLI), completed four tasks that could be potential positive psycholinguistic markers for this impairment: a third person singular task, a past tense task, a nonword repetition task, and a sentence repetition task. This allowed examination of more than one type of marker simultaneously, facilitatin...

Inthis paper, wedescribeindetail theperformanceon avariety of tests of language processing of a patient (PS) who shows a strong effect of imageability in auditory repetition. Unlike deep dysphasic patients (e.g. Franklin, Howard, & Patterson, 1994, 1995; Valdois, Carbonnel, David, Rousset, & Pellat, 1995), who also show effects of imageability, PS does not make semantic errors in auditory repet...

Nonword repetition skills were examined in 24 pediatric cochlear implant users and 18 normal-hearing adult listeners. The normal-hearing adult listeners heard spectrally degraded nonwords that were processed through an acoustic simulation of a cochlear implant designed to mimic the auditory input received by cochlear implant users. Two separate groups of normal-hearing adult listeners assigned ...

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...

A growing body of research has emphasized the linkage between performance in immediate serial recall of lists, nonword repetition, and word learning. Recently, it has been reported that primacy and recency effects are obtained in repetition of individual syllables within nonwords (Gupta, in press). Five experiments examined whether such within-nonword primacy and recency effects are attributabl...