Neighborhood density influences adult performance on several word processing tasks. Some studies show age-related effects of density on children’s performance, reflecting a developmental restructuring of the mental lexicon from holistic into segmental representations that may play a role in phonological awareness. To further investigate density effects and their implications for development of ...

PURPOSE To verify using 4 different tests the incidence of distortions in children with and without phonological disorders. METHOD Forty children between 4 and 10.2 years of age, divided into 2 groups: 20 with normal development and 20 with phonological disorders. All children underwent the phonology tests of the Child Language Assessment ABFW and 2 spontaneous speaking tests to assess for ph...

Research has shown that children with cochlear implants (CI) use the same phonological processes as normally hearing (NH) peers with respect to consonant cluster development. However, the incidence of those phonological processes has not been examined in the literature thus far. Furthermore, a quantified comparison between both groups of children is missing in the literature, as well as studies...

Abstract Background Research findings on the reading outcomes of cochlear implants are inconsistent. Controversy was observed in performance implanted children, both relation to hearing aid users and normally children. This cross-sectional study aims evaluate phonological awareness skills school-aged, severe-to-profound, prelingually deafened children using identify any associations between the...

PURPOSE To differentiate the effect of phonotactic probability from that of neighborhood density on a vocabulary probe administered to preschool children with or without phonological delays. METHOD Twenty preschool children with functional phonological delays and 34 preschool children with typical language development completed a 121-item vocabulary probe in both an expressive and receptive r...

PHONOLOGICAL MEAN LENGTH OF UTTERANCE AS AN INDICATOR OF TYPICAL AND IMPAIRED PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN ACQUIRING FINNISH Katri Saaristo-Helin University of Helsinki, FIN The aim of this study was to examine the applicability of the Phonological Mean Length of Utterance (pMLU) method to the data of children acquiring Finnish, for both typically developing children and children with a...

The acquisition of phonological inventories is a subject which has been studied by both linguists and psychologists, and rightly so—there is no question from the point of view of the theoretician studying universal grammar that the path from the initial state to the adult state is of interest, and there is no question from the developmental psychologist’s point of view that the child’s phonolog...