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Waring, Rebecca; Rickard Liow, Susan; Eadie, Patricia; Dodd, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Emerging evidence suggests domain-general processes, including working memory, may contribute to reduced speech production skills in young children. This study compared the phonological short-term (pSTM) and phonological working memory (pWM) abilities of 50 monolingual English-speaking children between 3;6 and 5;11 with typical speech production…
Descriptors: Phonology, Short Term Memory, Speech Communication, Monolingualism
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Dodd, Barbara – Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
Aim: The cognitive-linguistic abilities of 2 subgroups of children with speech impairment were compared to better understand underlying deficits that might influence effective intervention. Methods: Two groups of 23 children, aged 3;3 to 5;6, performed executive function tasks assessing cognitive flexibility and nonverbal rule abstraction.…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Error Patterns, Preschool Children, Speech Impairments
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Dodd, Barbara; McEvoy, Sandra – Journal of Child Language, 1994
The claim that multiple-birth children use "twin language" was investigated by describing and comparing the phonological characteristics of the speech of 19 sets of multiple birth children (aged 2-4) and by measuring multiple-birth children's understanding of their twins' or triplets' context-free speech. Results indicated that multiple…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research