1. Evaluating the role of word-related parameters in the discriminative power of a novel nonword repetition task for bilingual children.
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Bloder T, Eikerling M, and Lorusso ML
- Subjects
- Humans, Female, Male, Child, Preschool, Child, Vocabulary, Reproducibility of Results, Italy, Child Language, Germany, Phonetics, Multilingualism, Language Development Disorders diagnosis, Language Tests
- Abstract
In bi- and monolingual children, nonword repetition tasks (NWRTs) differentiate typically developing (TD) children from children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) or children with a risk of DLD. Previous research has highlighted the importance of considering language specificity in nonword (NW) construction especially for bilingual children. A novel NWRT has been designed for the screening of DLD risk in the bilingual Italian-German preschool population, creating lists of language-specific (for the two target languages) and language-non-specific NWs. This study aimed to test the discriminative validity of this NWRT and to identify the characteristics of the NWs that maximise discriminative validity within language-specific and language-non-specific subsets. The findings confirm the role of language specificity (in terms of target language alikeness) but also of other characteristics related to word structure complexity.
- Published
- 2024
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