Auditory Processing in Specific Language Impairment (SLI): Relations With the Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress.

Purpose: We investigated whether impaired acoustic processing is a factor in developmental language disorders. The amplitude envelope of the speech signal is known to be important in language processing. We examined whether impaired perception of amplitude envelope rise time is related to impaired p...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 1292 - 1306
Autores principales: Richards, Susan, Goswami, Usha
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Aug2015
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          Richards, Susan
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        Psycholinguistics
        Case-control method
        Statistical correlation
        Experimental design
        Language disorders in children
        Psychoacoustics
        Regression analysis
        Research funding
        Physiological aspects of speech
        Speech therapists
        Statistics
        T-test (Statistics)
        Data analysis
        Phonological awareness
        Data analysis software
        Descriptive statistics
        Mann Whitney U Test
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          Psycholinguistics
          Case-control method
          Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists
          Statistical correlation
          Experimental design
          Language disorders in children
          Psychoacoustics
          Regression analysis
          Research funding
          Physiological aspects of speech
          Speech therapists
          Statistics
          T-test (Statistics)
          Data analysis
          Phonological awareness
          Data analysis software
          Descriptive statistics
          Mann Whitney U Test
      ab: Purpose: We investigated whether impaired acoustic processing is a factor in developmental language disorders. The amplitude envelope of the speech signal is known to be important in language processing. We examined whether impaired perception of amplitude envelope rise time is related to impaired perception of lexical and phrasal stress in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Twenty-two children aged between 8 and 12 years participated in this study. Twelve had SLI; 10 were typically developing controls. All children completed psychoacoustic tasks measuring rise time, intensity, frequency, and duration discrimination. They also completed 2 linguistic stress tasks measuring lexical and phrasal stress perception. Results: The SLI group scored significantly below the typically developing controls on both stress perception tasks. Performance on stress tasks correlated with individual differences in auditory sensitivity. Rise time and frequency thresholds accounted for the most unique variance. Digit Span also contributed to task success for the SLI group. Conclusions: The SLI group had difficulties with both acoustic and stress perception tasks. Our data suggest that poor sensitivity to amplitude rise time and sound frequency significantly contributes to the stress perception skills of children with SLI. Other cognitive factors such as phonological memory are also implicated.
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