Oral diadochokinetic rates for real words and non-words in Greek-speaking children

Autor: Dionysios Tafiadis, Vasiliki Zarokanellou, Alexandra Prentza, Louiza Voniati, Nafsika Ziavra
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Open Linguistics, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 722-738 (2021)
ISSN: 2300-9969
Popis: This study examined the performance of Greek monolingual typically developing (TD) children on diadochokinetic (DDK) rates in real words and non-words and attempted to establish normative data for Greek. The effects of age, type of stimuli and gender were investigated. A total of 380 children aged 4.0–15.0 years as well as a control group of 313 adults participated in the study. Age significantly affected DDK performance, yet normative data differ from other studies. DDK rates for bisyllabic stimuli were faster than DDK rates for trisyllabic stimuli and real words were articulated faster than non-words. Adolescents aged 13.0–15.0 years were slower than adults both in real word and in non-word /ˈpataka/ repetition. Additionally, overall boys were significantly faster than girls. These findings show the need to: (a) implement real word stimuli in DDK tasks in order to better depict an individual’s oral-motor abilities and (b) establish language-specific normative data for TD children.
Databáze: OpenAIRE