objectives: this study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the srt that was performed in 4-6 year-old persian-speaking children. the srt is a nonword repetition task that assesses phonological working memory and was designed by shriberg in 2008. methods: the present research was a non-experimental study with a methodological design. the content validity of the task was evaluated by...

Infants' phonological acquisition during the first 18 months of life has been some 30 years. Current research themes include statistical learning mechanisms, early lexical development, and models of phonetic category perception. So far, linguistic theories have hardly been taken into account. These theories are based upon the assumption that there is a common core of innate phonological knowled...

WE COMPARED THREE PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING COMPONENTS (PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, RAPID AUTOMATIZED NAMING AND PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY), VERBAL WORKING MEMORY, AND ATTENTION CONTROL IN TERMS OF HOW WELL THEY PREDICT THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF READING: word recognition, pseudoword decoding, fluency and comprehension, in a mixed sample of 182 children ages 8-12 years. Participants displayed a wide range of r...

Phonological encoding is the process by which speakers retrieve phonemic segments for morphemes from memory and use the segments to assemble phonological representations of words to be spoken. When conversing in one language, bilingual speakers have to resist the temptation of encoding word forms using the phonological rules and representations of the other language. We argue that the activatio...

The role of phonological coding for character identification was examined with the benefit of processing parafoveal characters in eye fixations while reading Chinese sentences. In Experiment 1, the orthogonal manipulation of phonological and orthographic similarity can separate two types of phonological benefits for homophonic previews, according to whether these previews share the same phoneti...

A perennial question in linguistics concerns the nature of the relationship between phonology and phonetics. On casual observation the synchronic evidence is conflicting: while phonetically “natural” phonological processes abound, e.g., the palatalization of coronals preceding palatal vocoids, there are also plenty of examples of phonological processes for which phonetic motivation is not readi...

The acquisition of reading and literacy skills in normal-hearing children has been found to be closely related to the development of phonological knowledge and the use of phonological processing skills. Phonological processing is often measured using a nonword repetition task in which a child relies on phonological knowledge and abstract phonological representations in order to decompose, encod...

A new scheme to represent phonological changes during continuous speech recognition is suggested. A phonological tag coupled with its morphological tag is designed to represent the conditions of Korean phonological changes. A pairwise language model of these morphological and phonological tags is implemented in Korean speech recognition system. Performance of the model is verified through the T...

Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth, we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our linguistic communication and cultural technologies--reading and writing. Why are humans compelled to generate phonological patterns? Why are phonological patterns intimately grounded in their sensorimotor channels (speech...