Articlegreen2009

A Nonword Repetition Task for Speakers With Misarticulations: The Syllable Repetition Task (SRT)

Lawrence D. Shriberg · Heather L. Lohmeier · Thomas F. Campbell · Christine A. Dollaghan · Jordan R. Green · Christopher A. Moore

162 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Language Development and Disorders Reading and Literacy Development Phonetics and Phonology Research

Abstract

PURPOSE: Conceptual and methodological confounds occur when non(sense) word repetition tasks are administered to speakers who do not have the target speech sounds in their phonetic inventories or who habitually misarticulate targeted speech sounds. In this article, the authors (a) describe a nonword repetition task, the Syllable Repetiton Task (SRT), that eliminates this confound and (b) report findings from 3 validity studies. METHOD: Ninety-five preschool children with speech delay and 63 with typical speech completed an assessment battery that included the Nonword Repetition Task (NRT; C. Dollaghan & T. F. Campbell, 1998) and the SRT. SRT stimuli include only 4 of the earliest occurring consonants and 1 early occurring vowel. RESULTS: Study 1 findings indicated that the SRT eliminated the speech confound in nonword testing with speakers who misarticulate. Study 2 findings indicated that the accuracy of the SRT to identify expressive language impairment was comparable to findings for the NRT. Study 3 findings illustrated the SRT's potential to interrogate speech processing constraints underlying poor nonword repetition accuracy. Results supported both memorial and auditory-perceptual encoding constraints underlying nonword repetition errors in children with speech-language impairment. CONCLUSION: The SRT appears to be a psychometrically stable and substantively informative nonword repetition task for emerging genetic research and other research with speakers who misarticulate.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 162 citations exist upstream.

References

2000The episodic buffer: a new component of working memory?1997Prevalence of Specific Language Impairment in Kindergarten Children 1990Phonological memory deficits in language disordered children: Is there a causal connection?1999Working Memory: The Multiple-Component Model 1998Nonword Repetition and Child Language Impairment 2006Nonword repetition and word learning: The nature of the relationship 2014Goldman‐Fristoe Test of Articulation 2 1996Nonword Repetition as a Behavioural Marker for Inherited Language Impairment: Evidence From a Twin Study

Cited by

2012Encoding, memory, and transcoding deficits in Childhood Apraxia of Speech 2017Tutorial: Speech Assessment for Multilingual Children Who Do Not Speak the Same Language(s) as the Speech-Language Pathologist 2012Real-Word and Nonword Repetition in Italian-Speaking Children With Specific Language Impairment: A Study of Diagnostic Accuracy 2010Relations among language exposure, phonological memory, and language development in Spanish–English bilingually developing 2-year-olds 2019Estimates of the prevalence of motor speech disorders in children with idiopathic speech delay

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.