title: Performance of children on the Turkish Nonword Repetition Test: Effect of word similarity, word length, and scoring.
abstract: This study aims to report the preliminary results of the development of the Turkish Nonword Repetition Test and to contribute to the clinical accuracy of the test by comparing the performance of children with specific language impairment with that of language-level matched and age-matched typically developing children on a nonword repetition (NWR) test developed for Turkish. To determine the effect of word similarity and word length, the Turkish Nonword Repetition Test is composed of language-like and language-unlike items. To determine the effect of scoring, the performances of children were scored as correct/incorrect for a whole word, for only the consonants, and for only the vowels. The findings suggest that the test is a reliable tool to differentiate Turkish-speaking children with SLI from typically developing children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Anadolu University , Eskişehir , Turkey and.
authors.forename: Seyhun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Topbaş
authors.forename: Dilber
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaçar-Kütükçü
authors.forename: Handan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kopkalli-Yavuz
mesh_terms: D001072:Apraxias / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015897:Comorbidity; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010700:Phonetics; D060865:Repetition Priming; D012660:Semantics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014421:Turkey; D014706:Verbal Learning
keywords: Assessment; SLI; Turkish; diagnostic accuracy; nonword repetition; typical children