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Underlying Deficits in Language-Disordered Children with Central Auditory Processing Difficulties.
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James, Denita; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Phonological working memory and auditory processing skills were investigated in six children with central auditory processing (CAP) difficulties. Compared to children without the disorder, CAP children showed poorer abilities in nonword repetition and word recall and were sensitive to the phonological similarity and word length of the recall…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Children, College Students, Comparative Analysis
The Effect of Multilingualism on Phonetic Perceptual Flexibility.
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Werker, Janet F. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Attempts to determine whether broadened linguistic experience facilitates cross-language phonetic sensitivity to a novel speech contrast. Multilingual adults and monolingual English speaking adults were compared on their ability to make phonetic distinctions not found in their respective native languages. Broad, nonspecific linguistic experience…
Descriptors: Adults, Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception
Awareness of Words as Phonological Entities: The Role of Literacy.
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Kolinsky, Regine; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Results of two experiments investigating phonological skills of illiterate, unschooled adults and formerly illiterate, unschooled adults from shantytowns in Portugal suggest that learning to read, though not strictly necessary, plays a decisive role in the development of the ability of many individuals to focus on phonological length of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Audiolingual Skills, Cognitive Processes
Detection of Mispronunciations: A Comparison of Adults, Normal-Speaking Children, and Children with Articulation Errors.
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Bernthal, John E.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Comparison of normal-speaking (N=20) and misarticulating (N=20) four- to six-year-olds and adults (N=16) revealed that adults were significantly more accurate in detecting mispronunciations than either group of children, while performance between the two groups of children was similar. Words that children found most difficult were also those on…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Articulation (Speech), Articulation Impairments