title: Differences in phonologic and prosodic abilities in children with phonological language impairment and phonological-grammatical language impairment assessed with non-word repetition.
abstract: Prosody can be described as the rhythmic, dynamic, and melodic aspects of language. Swedish has a relatively complex prosodic system compared to, for example, English. A large percentage of Swedish children with language impairment show prosodic problems to some extent. In the present study, non-word repetition was used to assess the phonological and prosodic abilities in children with phonological language impairment and children with phonological-grammatical language impairment. In the study, 10 children with phonological language impairment and 14 children with phonological-grammatical language impairment from 4;3 to 6;2 years of age participated. All children heard the same recorded non-words and words. The group with phonological language impairment received higher scores in all variables, compared to the group with phonological-grammatical language impairment. The results showed significant differences between the groups regarding production of vowels correct in words and production of phonemes correct in non-words as well as production of unstressed syllables in non-words and production of correct stress in non-words. Percent correctly produced vowels in words, but not in non-words, correlated significantly with grammatical ability.
authors.affiliation: a Department of ENT/Logopedmottagningen , Blekingesjukhuset, Karlshamn , Sweden.
authors.forename: Åsa
authors.initials: Å
authors.lastname: From
authors.affiliation: b Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine/Division of Speech Language Pathology , Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sundström
authors.affiliation: b Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine/Division of Speech Language Pathology , Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Samuelsson
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010699:Phonation; D010700:Phonetics; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000379:methods*; D014833:Voice Quality
keywords: Children; language impairment; non-word; phonology; prosody