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| Title: | Investigating the effects of syllable complexity in Russian-speaking children with SLI |
| Author: | Darya Kavitskaya |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Yale University |
| Author: | Maria A. Babyonyshev |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.yale.edu/linguist/faculty/masha.htm |
| Institution: | Yale University |
| Author: | Theodore Walls |
| Institution: | University of Rhode Island, USA |
| Author: | Elena Grigorenko |
| Institution: | Yale University |
| Linguistic Field: | Language Acquisition; Phonology; Psycholinguistics |
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Russian
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| Abstract: | This study examined the effect of number of syllables and syllable structure on repetition of pseudo-words by Russian-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children. One hundred and forty-four pseudo-words, varying in length and syllable complexity, were presented to two groups of children: 15 children with SLI, age range 4 ; 0 to 8 ; 8, and 15 TD children matched in age to the SLI group. The number of errors in the repetition of pseudo-words was analyzed in terms of the number of syllables and syllable complexity. The results demonstrated that children with SLI have deficits in working memory capacity. In addition to the pseudo-word length, the repetition performance was affected by syllable structure complexity. |
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This article appears in Journal of Child Language Vol. 38, Issue 5, which you can read on Cambridge's site . |
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