The bilingual advantage: performing the non-word repetition test

Abstract

The study investigated the accuracy of non-word production by bilingual and monolingual children. The participants (125 children in total) belonged to two groups of bilingual children with different language repertoires and one group of monolingual Lithuanians. The analysis revealed that the overall performance of both bilingual groups was better than in the monolingual group. The bilingual children demonstrated more accurate and statistically significant results in repeating longer and structurally more complex non-words. The findings of this study suggest that the bilinguals being acquainted with two phonological systems had a greater experience with diverse phonology, which ensured a more precise performance of the task.

Children’s sensitivity to visual information: Methodological considerations for non-word repetition testing

“…Results of the Lithuanian non-word repetition test have been extensively described (see Krivickaitė-Leišienė, Dabašinskienė 2022, Krivickaitė-Leišienė 2020, Krivickaitė 2017, 2014, Krivickaitė, Dabašinskienė 2013, but the comparison of the stimuli was not discussed in detail. The samples of the studies on the Lithuanian non-word repetition test were mainly collected using audio-recorded stimuli due to the large amount of data.…”