Evaluation of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test: Evidence From a Large and Diverse Secondary Data Set.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the crosslinguistic validity of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test (CL-NWR) based on a large multicountry sample by investigating factors related to language ability, as well as potential confounds. Method: The data consisted of CL-NWR scores f...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 11; pp. 5363 - 5384 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Nov2025
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=189241812&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 189241812 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2025 vid: 68 iid: 11 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 189241812 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00158 ppf: 5363 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: Evaluation of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test: Evidence From a Large and Diverse Secondary Data Set. aug: au: Polišenská, Kamila Chiat, O. Shula Szewczyk, Jakub Antonijevic, Stanislava Blom, Elma Boerma, Tessel Bohnacker, Ute Chan, Angel Chondrogianni, Vasiliki Fu, Nga Ching Gatt, Daniela Grech, Helen Jezek, Magdalena Kapalková, Svetlana Kunnari, Sari Maier, Juliane Mayer-Crittenden, Chantal Öberg, Linnéa Schwob, Salomé Skoruppa, Katrin affil: Department of Language and Communication Science, City St George's, University of London, United Kingdom Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland School of Health Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway Department of Education and Pedagogy, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom K Department of Human Communication Sciences & Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida Institute of Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St. John of God, Linz, Austria Research Institute for Developmental Medicine, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria Department of Communication Disorders, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, Finland Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprachenphilologie, Heidelberg University, Germany School of Speech-Language Pathology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Institut des Sciences Logopédiques, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland su: Linguistics Multilingualism Sound recordings Communication Language acquisition Social classes Statistical correlation Language disorders in children Research evaluation Research methodology evaluation Descriptive statistics Research methodology Research Inter-observer reliability sug: subj: Linguistics Multilingualism Sound recordings Communication Language acquisition Social classes Integrated Record Production/Distribution Sound recording merchant wholesalers Record Production Statistical correlation Language disorders in children Research evaluation Research methodology evaluation Descriptive statistics Research methodology Research Inter-observer reliability ab: Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the crosslinguistic validity of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test (CL-NWR) based on a large multicountry sample by investigating factors related to language ability, as well as potential confounds. Method: The data consisted of CL-NWR scores from children aged 37-165 months, collected by 18 research teams across 15 countries. Item-level analysis was employed to examine any nondesirable effects of gender, socioeconomic status, bilingual status, and the amount of exposure to the test language, as well as desirable effects of age, item length, and clinical status (children categorized as typically developing [TD], with developmental language disorder [DLD], or with reported language concerns [LC], respectively). Subsamples were used to evaluate the consistency of findings across three time points and between different versions of the CL-NWR. Results: Bayesian analysis provided strong evidence for the effects of age, item length, and clinical status on CL-NWR performance, as well as consistency across time points. In contrast, there was weak or no evidence for the effects of gender, socioeconomic status, bilingual status, amount of exposure, or test version. Additionally, there were two interactions between (a) item length and clinical status, suggesting that children with DLD found longer nonwords disproportionately more challenging than TD children, and (b) age and clinical status, with the gap between TD and LC groups narrowing with age. Conclusions: The CL-NWR was unaffected by environmental and demographic factors that often influence language assessments, including some nonword repetition tests. Performance was driven by factors reflecting language abilities. This makes the CL-NWR a unique and valuable tool for language assessment contributing to the identification of DLD in diverse linguistic, social, and geographical contexts. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|