Non-word repetition assesses phonological memory and is related to vocabulary development in 20- to 24-month-olds

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 903-916

  Hoff, Erika ^a   Core, Cynthia ^a   Bridges, Kelly ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 53849108164     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908008751     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Baddeley, A. D., Gathercole, S. E. & Papagano, C. (1998). The phonological loop as a language learning device. Psychological Review 105, 158-73.
2. Bowey, J. A. (2001). Nonword repetition and young children's receptive vocabulary: A longitudinal study. Applied Psycholinguistics 22, 441-69.
3. Coady, J. A. & Aslin, R. N. (2004). Young children's sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 89, 183-213.
4. Coady, J. A. & Evans, J. L. (2008). The uses and interpretations of nonword repetition tasks in children with and without specific language impairments. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 43, 1-40.
5. Chase, W. G. & Simon, H. A. (1973). Perception in chess. Cognitive Psychology 4, 55-81.
6. Chiat, A. & Roy, P. (2007). The Preschool Repetition Test: An evaluation of performance in typically developing and clinically referred children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 50, 429-43.
7. Fenson, L., Dale, P. S., Reznick, J. S., Thai, D., Bates, E., Hartung, J. P., Pethick, S. & Reilly, J. S. (1993). MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories : User's guide and technical manual. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Inc.
8. Fenson, L., Pethick, S., Renda, C., Cox, J. L., Dale, P. S. & Reznick, J. S. (2000). Short-form versions of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. Applied Psycholinguistics 21, 95-115.
9. Gathercole, S. E. (2006). Nonword repetition and word learning: The nature of the relationship. Applied Psycholinguistics 27, 513-43.
10. Gathercole, S. E. SE Adams, A.-M. (1993). Phonological working memory in very young children. Developmental Psychology 29, 770-8.
11. Gathercole, S. E., Willis, C S., Emslic, H. & Baddeley, A. D. (1991). The influence of number of syllables and wordlikeness on children's repetition of nonwords. Applied Psycholinguistics 12, 349-67.
12. Gierut, J. A. (1998). Production, conceptualization and change in distinctive featural categories. Journal of Child Language 25, 321-41.
13. Leonard, L., Schwartz, R. G., Morris, B. & Chapman, K. (1981). Factors influencing early lexical acquisition : Lexical orientation and phonological composition. Child Development 52, 882-7.
14. Miller, G. A. & Isard, S. (1963). Some perceptual consequences of linguistic rules. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 2, 217-28.
15. Rvachew, S., Ohberg, A., Grawburg, M. & Heyding, J. (2003). Phonological awareness and phonemic perception in 4-year-old children with delayed expressive phonology skills. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 12, 463-71.
16. Service, E. & Kohonen, V. (1995). Is the relation between phonological memory and foreign-language learning accounted for by vocabulary acquisition ? Applied Psycholinguistics 16, 155-72.
17. Shriberg, L. D., Lewis, B. A., McSweeny, J. L. & Wilson, D. L. (1997). The percentage of consonant correct (PCC) metric: Extensions and reliability data. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 40, 708-22.
18. Smith, B. L., McGregor, K. K. & DeMille, D. (2006). Phonological development in lexically precocious 2-year-olds. Applied Psycholinguistics 27, 355-75.
19. Snowling, M.J. (2006). Nonword repetition and language learning disorders: A developmental contingency framework. Applied Psycholinguistics 27, 588-91.
20. Stoel-Gammon, C. & Sosa, A. V. (2007). Phonological development. In E. Hoff & M. Shatz (eds), The Blackwell handbook of language development, 238-56. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
21. Storkel, H. L. (2001). Learning new words: Phonotactic probability in language development. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44, 1321-37.
22. Stothard, S. E., Snowling, M. J., Bishop, D. V. M., Chipchase, B. B. & Kaplan, C. A. (1998). Language-impaired preschoolers: A follow-up into adolescence. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 41, 407-18.
23. Swingley, D. (2007). Lexical exposure and word-form encoding in 1 1.5-year-olds. Developmental Psychology 43, 454-64.
24. Vitevitch, M. S. & Luce, P. A. (2004). A Web-based interface to calculate phonotactic probability for words and nonwords in English. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 36, 481-7.
25. Werker, J. & Curtin, S. (2005). PRIMIR: A developmental framework of infant speech processing. Language Learning and Development 1, 197-234.