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The children's test of nonword repetition: A test of phonological working memory
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Findings from the Children's Test of Nonword Repetition are shown to be consistently higher and more specific than those obtained between language skills and another simple verbal task with a significant phonological memory component, auditory digit span.Abstract:
This article presents findings from the Children's Test of Nonword Repetition (CNRep). Normative data based on its administration to over 600 children aged between four and nine years are reported. Close developmental links are established between CNRep scores and vocabulary, reading, and comprehensive skills in children during the early school years. The links between nonword repetition and language skills are shown to be consistently higher and more specific than those obtained between language skills and another simple verbal task with a significant phonological memory component, auditory digit span. The psychological mechanisms underpinning these distinctive developmental relationships between nonword repetition and language development are considered.read more
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The phonological loop as a language learning device.
TL;DR: It is proposed that the primary purpose for which the phonological loop evolved is to store unfamiliar sound patterns while more permanent memory records are being constructed, and its use in retaining sequences of familiar words is, it is argued, secondary.
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Working memory skills and educational attainment: evidence from national curriculum assessments at 7 and 14 years of age
TL;DR: The relationship between working memory skills and performance on national curriculum assessments in English, mathematics and science was explored in groups of children aged 7 and 14 years by as mentioned in this paper, who found that children's levels of attainment in both English and mathematics were significantly associated with working memory scores, and in particular with performance on complex span tasks.
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Language-impaired preschoolers: a follow-up into adolescence.
Susan E. Stothard,Margaret J. Snowling,Dorothy V. M. Bishop,Barry B. Chipchase,Carole Kaplan +4 more
TL;DR: A longitudinal follow-up of 71 adolescents with a preschool history of speech-language impairment, originally studied by Bishop and Edmundson (1987), found that children who still had significant language difficulties at 5;6 had significant impairments in all aspects of spoken and written language functioning, as did children classified as having a general delay.
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Nonword repetition and word learning: The nature of the relationship.
TL;DR: This paper presented a theoretical framework designed to accommodate core evidence that the abilities to repeat nonwords and to learn the phonological forms of new words are closely linked, and concluded that word learning mediated by temporary phonological storage is a primitive learning mechanism that is particularly important in the early stages of acquiring a language, but remains available to support word learning across the life span.
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Nonword Repetition as a Behavioural Marker for Inherited Language Impairment: Evidence From a Twin Study
TL;DR: The Children's Nonword Repetition Test was given to 39 children with persistent language impairment, 13 with a history of having received speech-language therapy, and 79 controls, and it was concluded that CNRep provides a marker of the phenotype of heritable forms of developmental language impairment.
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The Sound Pattern of English
Noam Chomsky,Morris Halle +1 more
TL;DR: Since this classic work in phonology was published in 1968, there has been no other book that gives as broad a view of the subject, combining generally applicable theoretical contributions with analysis of the details of a single language.
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The nature of phonological processing and its causal role in the acquisition of reading skills
TL;DR: The causal role of phonological abilities in the acquisition of reading skills was explored in this article, where it was shown that phonological recoding in lexical access and phonetic receding in working memory are causally related to the ability to read.
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Word length and the structure of short-term memory
TL;DR: This article explored the hypothesis that immediate memory span is not constant, but varies with the length of the words to be recalled, finding that words of short temporal duration are better recalled than words of long duration.
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Functional parallelism in spoken word-recognition.
TL;DR: Two versions of a “cohort”-based model of the process of spoken word-recognition are described, showing how it evolves from a partially interactive model, where access is strictly autonomous but selection is subject to top-down control, to a fully bottom-up model where context plays no role in the processes of form-based access and selection.
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Phonological memory deficits in language disordered children: Is there a causal connection? ☆
TL;DR: In this article, the phonological memory skills of a group of children with disordered language development were compared with those of two control groups, one group matched on verbal abilities and the other matched on nonverbal intelligence.