Word Detection in Sung and Spoken Sentences in Children With Typical Language Development or With Specific Language Impairment

Autor: Nia Cason, Clément Planchou, Renée Béland, Séverine Samson, Sylvain Clément, Jacques Motte
Přispěvatelé: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims (CHU Reims), Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Emotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072 (PSITEC), Université de Lille, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Université de Montréal (UdeM), Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - EA 4072, Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims [CHU Reims], Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Emotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072 [PSITEC], Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal [CHUM]
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Advances in Cognitive Psychology
Advances in Cognitive Psychology, Vizja Press & IT, 2015, 11 (4), pp.118-135. ⟨10.5709/acp-0177-8⟩
Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 2015, 11 (4), pp.118-135. ⟨10.5709/acp-0177-8⟩
ISSN: 1895-1171
Popis: BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported that children score better in language tasks using sung rather than spoken stimuli. We examined word detection ease in sung and spoken sentences that were equated for phoneme duration and pitch variations in children aged 7 to 12 years with typical language development (TLD) as well as in children with specific language impairment (SLI ), and hypothesized that the facilitation effect would vary with language abilities. METHOD In Experiment 1, 69 children with TLD (7-10 years old) detected words in sentences that were spoken, sung on pitches extracted from speech, and sung on original scores. In Experiment 2, we added a natural speech rate condition and tested 68 children with TLD (7-12 years old). In Experiment 3, 16 children with SLI and 16 age-matched children with TLD were tested in all four conditions. RESULTS In both TLD groups, older children scored better than the younger ones. The matched TLD group scored higher than the SLI group who scored at the level of the younger children with TLD . None of the experiments showed a facilitation effect of sung over spoken stimuli. CONCLUSIONS Word detection abilities improved with age in both TLD and SLI groups. Our findings are compatible with the hypothesis of delayed language abilities in children with SLI , and are discussed in light of the role of durational prosodic cues in words detection. 11;4
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