Prosodic abilities in children with specific language impairment

Meulen, Sjoeke van der; Janssen, Peggy; Os, Els Den

doi:10.1016/s0021-9924(96)00059-7

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“…This result correlates with the hypothesis that rising tones may be more difficult to produce than falling tones in children [16]. It also correlates with the results of some clinical studies for SLI [13], [19]- [21], AD [24]- [26], and PDD-NOS [27] children although some contradictory results were found for SLI [18].…”

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“…The literature has shown that a separate analysis of the prosodic skills of LIC in the production and the perception of the intonation leads to contradictory results; [16]- [18] versus [13]- [15] and [19]- [21] for SLI children, and [3] versus [24]- [27] for the PDDs. Consequently, we used a simple technique to collect data for this study.…”

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Automatic Intonation Recognition for the Prosodic Assessment of Language-Impaired Children

Ringeval

Demouy

Szaszák

et al. 2011

IEEE Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.

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Abstract-This study presents a preliminary investigation into the automatic assessment of language-impaired children's (LIC) prosodic skills in one grammatical aspect: sentence modalities. Three types of language impairments were studied: autism disorder (AD), pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), and specific language impairment (SLI). A control group of typically developing (TD) children that was both age and gender matched with LIC was used for the analysis. All of the children were asked to imitate sentences that provided different types of intonation (e.g., descending and rising contours). An automatic system was then used to assess LIC's prosodic skills by comparing the intonation recognition scores with those obtained by the control group. The results showed that all LIC have difficulties in reproducing intonation contours because they achieved significantly lower recognition scores than TD children on almost all studied intonations (p 0 05). Regarding the "Rising" intonation, only SLI children had high recognition scores similar to TD children, which suggests a more pronounced pragmatic impairment in AD and PDD-NOS children. The automatic approach used in this study to assess LIC's prosodic skills confirms the clinical descriptions of the subjects' communication impairments.

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confidence: 88%

Section: E E E P R O O F P R I N T V E R S I O Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic Intonation Recognition for the Prosodic Assessment of Language-Impaired Children

Ringeval

Demouy

Szaszák

et al. 2011

IEEE Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.

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“…A number of studies suggest that aspects of prosody are a problematic area (Marshall, Hartcourt-Brown, Ramus, & van der Lely, 2009;Peppé, 2009;Peppé & McCann, 2003;Stojanovic & Setter, 2009;van der Meulen, Janssen, & Den Os, 1997;Weinert, 1992). Diverse manifestations of prosodic impairments in SLI have been shown; among others reduced performance in intonation tasks, differences in prosodic processing (Sabisch, Hahne, Glass, von Suchodoletz, & Friederici, 2009), limited understanding of the emotional meaning of prosody (Fujiki, Spackman, Brinton, & Illig, 2008) or problems in recognising and exploiting prosodic cues (Fisher, Plante, Vance, Gerken, & Glattke, 2007;Weinert, 1992).…”

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Prosodic constraints on inflected words: An area of difficulty for German-speaking children with specific language impairment?

Kauschke

Renner

Domahs

2013

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Recent studies suggest that morphosyntactic difficulties may result from prosodic problems. We therefore address the interface between inflectional morphology and prosody in typically developing children (TD) and children with SLI by testing whether these groups are sensitive to prosodic constraints that guide plural formation in German. A plural elicitation task was designed consisting of 60 words and 20 pseudowords. The performance of 14 German-speaking children with SLI (mean age 7.5) was compared to age-matched controls and to younger children matched for productive vocabulary. TD children performed significantly better than children with SLI. Error analyses revealed that children with SLI produced more forms that did not meet the optimal shape of a noun plural. Beyond the fact that children with SLI have deficits in plural marking, the findings suggest that they also show reduced sensitivity to prosodic requirements. In other words, the prosodic structure of inflected words seems to be vulnerable in children with SLI.

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“…Van der Meulen, Janssen & den Os (1997) had three lexically neutral sentences recorded by an actor attempting to convey each of four different emotions (fear, happiness, anger, sadness). Participants (four-, five-and six-year-old Dutch children, and adults) had to associate a particular sentence heard on tape with one of four pictures depicting the four emotions.…”

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Intonation development from five to thirteen

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Prosodic abilities in children with specific language impairment

Cited by 36 publications

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Automatic Intonation Recognition for the Prosodic Assessment of Language-Impaired Children

Automatic Intonation Recognition for the Prosodic Assessment of Language-Impaired Children

Prosodic constraints on inflected words: An area of difficulty for German-speaking children with specific language impairment?

Intonation development from five to thirteen

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