Celina Tschiedel, Vivien Heller, Leslie Wathsack, Friederike Kern
{"title":"Accomplishing classroom activity transitions with autistic children: A situated and multimodal approach to communicative competence.","authors":"Celina Tschiedel, Vivien Heller, Leslie Wathsack, Friederike Kern","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2741413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2741413","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores how transitions between different conversational activities are accomplished in classroom interactions with autistic children. These transitions are pervasive phenomena in interaction that require participants to use both verbal and bodily behaviour to display their involvement with new partners and activities. Drawing on 60 hours of video recordings and employing a multimodal conversation-analytic approach, the study examines instances of transitions in which troubles arise. The analysis focuses on how autistic children deal with transitions and how their co-participants respond to their 'uncommon' use of bodily resources. We demonstrate co-participants' various practices with three examples ranging from upgraded directives, over mockery, to disregard. These practices create differential opportunities for the autistic children to display their communicative competence. This interactional perspective challenges deficit-oriented models of communicative behaviour and contributes to a more dynamic and co-constructive understanding of communicative competence.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149185466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passive sentence production in Japanese-speaking children with intellectual disabilities: The role of verb forms, case markers, and phonological memory.","authors":"Yuta Takeo","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2741414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2741414","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the roles of verb forms, case markers, and phonological memory in the production of passive sentences among Japanese-speaking children with intellectual disabilities (ID). The ID group included children with Down syndrome (DS), and those with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability, who were compared with typically developing children matched for mental age. Participants completed sentence elicitation and nonword repetition tasks. The results showed that accurate passive verb form production was significantly challenging in the ID group, and this difficulty was not associated with phonological memory. As for case markers, the dative case production in passive sentence was significantly associated with phonological memory in the DS group. These results suggest that difficulties with passive verb forms may reflect processes beyond phonological memory and may involve syntactic processing. They also indicate that verb forms and case markers may rely on different processing mechanisms in Japanese passives.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149117466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comprehension of three-argument clitic left dislocations in Catalan Broca's aphasia.","authors":"Io Salmons, Anna Gavarró","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2741421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2741421","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People with Broca's aphasia have difficulty understanding certain syntactic structures, but the cause remains debated. This study investigates the comprehension of clitic left dislocations with three thematic roles in Catalan, compared to declaratives (with and without indirect object clitics) and subject topicalisations. These understudied structures are useful for testing the hypothesis that comprehension deficits result from intervention effects due to processing deficits. We conducted a sentence-picture matching task with eight individuals with Broca's aphasia and eight matched controls. Results showed that while the comprehension of clitic left dislocations was impaired, participants performed well on indirect object clitics, declaratives, and subject topicalisations. Notably, a subgroup showed above-chance performance on dislocations with preverbal subjects but not postverbal subjects, challenging intervention-based accounts and highlighting the potential role of locality and agreement operations in supporting comprehension.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesco Petriglia, Andrea Marini, Agata Marchetti Guerrini, Diego Di Lisi, Patrizia Consolino, Francesca Marina Bosco
{"title":"Multilevel narrative assessment in children with early cochlear implants compared to typically hearing peers.","authors":"Francesco Petriglia, Andrea Marini, Agata Marchetti Guerrini, Diego Di Lisi, Patrizia Consolino, Francesca Marina Bosco","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2723292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2723292","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cochlear implants (CIs) provide auditory access that supports the development of oral language in deaf children with severe-to-profound hearing loss, especially when implantation occurs early. This study assessed narrative abilities in 16 school-aged children with early CIs compared to 16 typically hearing peers matched for age, using a multilevel framework encompassing productivity, microlinguistic, and macrolinguistic measures. Results indicated that productivity and grammatical accuracy were largely preserved in early CI users. In contrast, lexical diversity (the range of different words used) and informativeness (words that contribute essential information to discourse) emerged as residual weaknesses, with CI children producing less varied and informative narratives, particularly in the use of function words such as pronouns and clitics. Overall, the findings reveal specific difficulties among CI users that can be clinically assessed and addressed through multilevel evaluation tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148963889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Héloïse Baglione, Vincent Martel-Sauvageau, Valérie Coulombe, Laura Monetta
{"title":"Vocal emotion recognition in Parkinson's disease: Beyond a general deficit.","authors":"Héloïse Baglione, Vincent Martel-Sauvageau, Valérie Coulombe, Laura Monetta","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2723296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2723296","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vocal emotion recognition allows listeners to infer the emotional state of speakers from their vocal cues. This ability relies on sequential processing involving perceptual, lexical and semantic components. Although people living with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) can experience difficulties in recognising vocal emotions, the underlying deficit(s) remain unknown. This cross-sectional study compared 17 PwPD without dementia with 32 people not living with Parkinson's disease (nPwPD) to examine the impact of Parkinson's disease on vocal emotion recognition abilities. Participants completed a general vocal emotion recognition task and three tasks assessing its underlying cognitive components. Results showed reduced general vocal emotion recognition in PwPD, and a specific impairment at the perceptual level, corresponding to the lower‑level processing stage selectively associated with impaired pitch discrimination. These findings suggest that altered pitch perception may contribute to vocal emotion recognition difficulties in PwPD, and may inform clinical management, ultimately contributing to improving PwPD's quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148901402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dalia Mazen Abdulkader, Jennifer Vannest, Suzanne Boyce, Amy Pratt, Karla N Washington, Victoria S McKenna
{"title":"Voice onset time patterns of /t/ and /k/ in bilingual Saudi children with typical development and suspected speech disorders.","authors":"Dalia Mazen Abdulkader, Jennifer Vannest, Suzanne Boyce, Amy Pratt, Karla N Washington, Victoria S McKenna","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2718310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2718310","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To examine voice onset time (VOT) for the t-k contrast in bilingual Saudi Arabic and English speakers, comparing typically developing (TD) children and those suspected of speech sound disorders (sSSD).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In a cross-sectional observational study, single-word productions of initial /t/ and /k/ were elicited from 88 children aged 3;0-9;11 (48 TD, 40 sSSD). VOT was measured acoustically and analysed by language, consonant, group, and age.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In TD children, VOT was longer and more variable in English than Arabic, with a significant cross-language difference for /k/ only. Age correlated with Arabic /k/ VOT and trended for English /t/. In sSSD children, VOT was longer and more variable in Arabic, with significant /t/-/k/ differences.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The /t/-/k/ contrast revealed language- and group-specific VOT patterns, suggesting SSD may affect voicing timing differently across languages. Future work should include repeated tokens, word positions, and dialectal variants.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148901474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A phonological complexity measure (PCM) for children's productions: Evidence from Hebrew-acquiring children.","authors":"Erika Antebi, Rama Novogrodsky, Avivit Ben-David","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2682902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2682902","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study presents the development of a Phonological Complexity Measure for children (PCM), which employs a graded coding and provides a structured approach for assessing phonological complexity. The measure evaluates the phonological units in the child's productions without comparisons to target words, reflecting the degree of complexity at each phonological level (word, syllable, and segment) according to the order of acquisition. Speech productions of 16 Hebrew-speaking children aged 21-51 months were collected during play interactions. From each interaction, 100 words were analysed. Results indicated that children produced more complex words, syllables, and segments with age, as seen by increasing scores of total PCM, and scores at each phonological level. It is suggested that the PCM reflects the development of phonological complexity of Hebrew-speaking children and can provide a useful cross-linguistic framework for assessing phonological development in young children.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148901485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greek-speaking children's developmental patterns of three-member adjunct consonant clusters.","authors":"Eleftheria Geronikou, Elena Babatsouli","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2713446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2713446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on Greek adjunct cluster acquisition has mainly examined 2-member clusters (/sC/), with limited attention to developmental patterns in 3-member clusters (/sCC/). This study investigates Greek /spɾ, stɾ, skl/, comparing them with related 2-member clusters (/st, sp, sk, pɾ, tɾ, kl/) to disentangle developmental paths. Data were collected from 161 monolingual Greek children aged 2;0-6;0 using the PAel picture-naming task targeting word-initial clusters. Results reveal cluster-specific distributions across four overlapping stages (Ø, C, CC, CCC), shaped by markedness, sonority, and Greek phonotactics. Entropy analyses show high variability until age 4;0, followed by increasing stability. /spɾ/ achieves earlier 3-member production; /stɾ/ develops more gradually with greater variability; /skl/ emerges later but progresses rapidly. Comparisons indicate unique developmental paths of /sCC/ acquisition rather than a simple extension of /sC/ mastery. These findings refine theoretical models, provide clinical benchmarks for identifying delay, and highlight entropy as a sensitive measure of phonological stabilisation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148892568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelly Farquharson, Paige Lovell, Christopher Constantino
{"title":"Targeted speech sounds and their association to children's grade level and therapy dosage.","authors":"Kelly Farquharson, Paige Lovell, Christopher Constantino","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2623231","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2623231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to understand which speech sounds are most commonly targeted in therapy, and how that target sound is associated with the child's grade and the dosage received within sessions. Dose is considered the number of times a speech sound is elicited in a single clinical session (e.g. 80 trials per session). We present data from 772 therapy sessions collected from 106 school-based speech-language pathologists, using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). ESM is an approach to collecting data in situ during moments of specific interest. This investigation, specifically, examined relations between target sounds, grade level, and dosage. Our results indicate that /ɹ/ was the most commonly targeted speech sound. Targeting a sound within the category of early 13 sounds significantly predicted that a child is enrolled in a lower grade level. However, there was no significant association between target sound category and dosage.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"879-894"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146127082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fenqi Wang, Joseph R Duffy, Ashley D Bachman, Leland R Barnard, Hugo Botha, Rene L Utianski
{"title":"Deep learning-derived measures of sound-level accuracy in primary progressive apraxia of speech: A feasibility pipeline with descriptive evidence from two cases.","authors":"Fenqi Wang, Joseph R Duffy, Ashley D Bachman, Leland R Barnard, Hugo Botha, Rene L Utianski","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2639397","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2639397","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech (PPAOS) is a neurodegenerative motor speech disorder marked by disrupted speech planning and programming. This study demonstrates the implementation and interpretability of phonological-class-based posterior probability values generated by Phonet (a deep learning model) in two individuals with PPAOS (one phonetic, one prosodic predominant), across different speech rates and delayed auditory feedback (DAF) settings. Phonet generated frame-level posterior probabilities for phonological classes, which were aggregated and aligned with segment durations. The prosodic subtype showed higher, more stable articulatory values and improvements under DAF, while the phonetic subtype showed greater variability and sensitivity to condition changes. Results were consistent with expert articulatory judgements of sound errors. These findings demonstrate Phonet's potential to provide interpretable, segment-level measures of articulatory performance and suggest its utility in monitoring treatment-related articulatory changes in motor speech disorders. Further research is needed to assess its broader clinical applicability.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"916-934"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13105225/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147379185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}