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{"title":"Speech and language skills in a case of Watson syndrome.","authors":"Tom Van Boxel-Woolf, Kathleen M McCarthy","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2472051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2472051","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Watson syndrome is a rare genetic condition partly characterised by developmental delays and learning difficulties. A profile of speech and language skills associated with this developmental syndrome is yet to be described in the literature. In order to address this gap, this study presents the case of an 18-year-old man with Watson syndrome and reports both standardised and naturalistic assessments of speech, language, oro-motor skills, and semantic and phonemic fluency. Analyses included norm-referencing, discrepancy comparison, phonological process analysis, and acoustic analyses of voice and conversational fluency. The participant's semantic fluency approximated to the 84^th percentile and the vocabulary, voice, and receptive language measures were within standard normative range. In contrast, expressive language difficulties and articulatory difficulties associated with impaired oro-motor skills were apparent. Specific tongue-motor difficulty impeded oral diadochokinesis, with gliding, stopping, and cluster reduction among the phonological processes observed to mitigate oro-motor difficulties. Language scores were lowest on tasks of working memory, syntax, and pragmatics, however neither syntax nor pragmatics presented increased difficulty in naturalistic conversation, indicating an influence of reduced working memory on language performance. The absence of explicit cognitive or communicative difficulty suggests specific speech and language difficulties. To conclude, the findings are discussed from both clinical and theoretical perspectives. Watson syndrome and the aetiology of communication difficulties are suggested as directions for future research, to validate these findings and diversify understanding of inclusive communication approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617803","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":"Managing interactional breakdowns with children with ASD: Therapists' practices when directives face challenges in therapeutic interactions.","authors":"Xiaoxin Ma, Wen Ma, Shuai Zhang","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2448700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2024.2448700","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Effective interventions to promote language competence, cognitive abilities and integrate these skills into daily activities for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often involve providing guidance and training through specific tasks, typically delivered by speech and language therapists through directive interactions. However, engaging children with ASD in such activities is not straightforward and often fraught with challenges. Yet we know very little about how practitioners cope when the interaction breaks down, for example, due to misunderstandings or failures to engage. This study employs a conversation analytic approach to uncover therapists' intricate practices for managing breakdowns in therapeutic interactions. Over 200 hours of naturally occurring interactions between seven Mandarin-speaking children and their therapists were recorded and analysed. Using Conversation Analysis, we identified and analysed 1062 directive turns issued by therapists and subsequent responses of the children. The findings are in three aspects: 1) A crucial and effective premise for increasing engagement and improving the quality of therapeutic interactions lies in recognising, ascribing and utilising the specific interactive modes of children with ASD, including their repeated utterances and prosodic resources. 2) Therapists' strategies are successful when they flexibly address and adapt the format of directives through tailored verbal iteration and embodied solicitation. 3) The importance of timing underscores the increased opportunities to positively influence turn-taking in children with ASD. It is proposed that practitioners can enhance their understanding of children with ASD by incorporating the profiling of interaction into their assessments and interventions, adapting ways to align with the unique patterns of children with ASD.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143574234","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":"Could linguistic and cognitive factors, degree of autistic traits and sex predict speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls?","authors":"Veera Pirinen, Soile Loukusa, Kurt Eggers, Jari Sivonen, Leena Mäkinen, Laura Mämmelä, Hanna Ebeling, Marja-Leena Mattila, Tuula Hurtig","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2357158","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2357158","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to evaluate the effect of linguistic complexity and individual background variables (i.e. linguistic and cognitive abilities, degree of autistic traits, and sex) on speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls. Thirty-two 19- to 33-year-old autistic adults and 35 controls participated in this study. The frequency of disfluencies and stuttering severity were evaluated based on a narrative speech task. Linguistic complexity was assessed by evaluating the syntactic structures of the narratives. Cognitive and linguistic abilities were assessed using the General Ability Index (GAI), Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) and Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI) from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV. Autistic traits were measured using the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ). Multiple-linear regression analyses (syntactic complexity, GAI, AQ, sex, and group status as predictors) showed that (a) syntactic complexity predicted total and stuttering-like disfluencies and stuttering severity, (b) GAI predicted typical disfluencies, and (c) sex predicted total, typical, and stuttering-like disfluencies. Additional correlation analyses revealed negative association between PRI and disfluencies in the control group but not in the autistic group. No connection was found between AQ and disfluencies. It seems that while some connections between disfluencies and individual cognitive features were found, some of the possible contributing factors for greater speech disfluency might differ between autistic and typical speakers.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"215-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141158076","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":"Phonological neighbourhood effects in Italian speech production: Evidence from healthy and neurologically impaired populations.","authors":"Irene Bellin, Erica Iob, Serena De Pellegrin, Eduardo Navarrete","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2360127","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2360127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In two speech production studies conducted in Italian, we investigated the impact of phonological neighbourhood properties such as the neighbourhood density and the mean frequency of the neighbours on speech processing. Two populations of healthy (Study 1) and neurologically impaired (Study 2) individuals were tested. We employed multi-regression methods to analyse naming latencies in Study 1 and accuracy rates in Study 2 while controlling for various psycholinguistic predictors. In Study 1, pictures with words from high-density neighbourhoods were named faster than those from low-density neighbourhoods. Additionally, words with high-frequency neighbours were named faster in Study 1 and yielded higher accuracy rates in Study 2. The results suggest facilitatory effects of both the phonological neighbourhood density and frequency neighbourhood variables. Furthermore, we observed interactions between these two phonological neighbourhood variables and name agreement and repetition. Specifically, the facilitation effect was more pronounced for pictures with lower name agreement and during the initial presentation of the pictures. These findings are discussed in the context of previous literature and within the framework of interactive models of speech production.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"255-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141477789","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 comparison of narrative abilities in Malay school-age typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder.","authors":"Iffah Rashida Mazlan, Nurulhusna Mohammad Hassnan, Yazmin Ahmad Rusli","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2359462","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2359462","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on narrative skills in the Malay language is scarce for both typically developing (TD) and children with Developmental Language Disorders (DLD). This study examines the differences in narrative abilities of Malay-speaking school-age children with and without DLD. Fifteen Malay-speaking TD children and 15 children with DLD told four stories elicited using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narrative (MAIN). Group comparisons were conducted in narrative production (story retelling and story generation) as well as in comprehension. We also examined the differences in both groups' story complexity (e.g. the combination of goals (G), attempts (A) and outcomes (O)). General microstructure features such as the total number of words (TNW), total number of sentences (TNS) and total number of different words (NDW) were also investigated. TD children outperformed children with DLD in both narrative production and comprehension. TD children constructed a higher combination of G, A, and O components than children with DLD. Children with DLD frequently produced G, A, and O in isolation in comparison to TD children. In language productivity and lexical complexity, TD children had a significantly higher frequency in TNW and NDW than children with DLD, resulting in longer narratives and higher use of different words than children with DLD. Distinct differences are found in the narrative profile of TD children and children with DLD. The results are relatively consistent with the findings of similar studies that utilised and adapted the MAIN in other languages. Clinical implications and recommendations are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"233-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141297045","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":"Exploring the effect of lexicality and listener experience on gradient ratings of Swedish sibilant fricatives.","authors":"Carla Wikse Barrow, Lina Ottosson, Sofia Strömbergsson","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2371121","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2371121","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores the influence of lexicality on gradient judgments of Swedish sibilant fricatives by contrasting ratings of initial fricatives in words and word fragments (initial CV-syllables). Visual-Analogue Scale (VAS) judgments were elicited from experienced listeners (speech-language pathologists; SLPs) and inexperienced listeners, and compared with respect to the effects of lexicality using Bayesian mixed-effects beta regression. Overall, SLPs had higher intra- and interrater reliability than inexperienced listeners. SLPs as a group also rated fricatives as more target-like, with higher precision, than did inexperienced listeners. An effect of lexicality was observed for all individual listeners, though the magnitude of the effect varied. Although SLP's ratings of Swedish children's initial voiceless fricatives were less influenced by lexicality, our results indicate that previous findings concerning VAS ratings of non-lexical CV-syllables cannot be directly transferred to the clinical context, without consideration of possible lexical bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"274-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141535743","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":"Clinical practices in Swedish speech-language pathology for children with (developmental) language disorder.","authors":"Lovisa Elm, Inger Lundeborg Hammarström, Christina Samuelsson, Charlotta Plejert","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2373843","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2373843","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Sweden, treatment for children with (developmental) language disorder ((D)LD) is traditionally carried out at a speech-language pathology (SLP) clinic, and based on formal language tests, which may not entirely represent the child's everyday language and communication skills. SLP services that include video recordings have shown positive outcomes in terms of providing information about children's linguistic and communicative abilities in everyday life, but little is known about the use of video in clinical practice. The aim of this study is therefore to investigate how Swedish SLPs link their clinical practices (assessment, treatment, and evaluation of treatment outcome) to the everyday language and communication abilities of children with (D)LD. A further aim is to explore SLPs' utilisation of video recordings as a part of their clinical practices with the target group. A web-based questionnaire was distributed to SLPs in Sweden, who work with children with (D)LD. Results demonstrate that Swedish SLPs perceive that their intervention is in alignment with children's everyday language and communication needs to a fairly high degree. However, an exception is assessment, which is considered to have a weaker alignment with children's everyday communication abilities. The use of video recordings for clinical purposes is very limited. It is suggested here that incorporating video recordings from children's everyday life would be an easy and time-efficient way to strengthen the ecological validity of SLP practices for children with (D)LD.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"293-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141499416","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":"Disruptions in lexical and speech entrainment: Multidimensional insights from English school-age late talkers.","authors":"Yanting Sun, Hongwei Ding","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2464553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2464553","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Late talkers, despite achieving normal language test scores by age five, often face enduring conversational challenges. This study examines whether school-age children identified as late talkers at 24 months show persistent disruptions in speech and lexical entrainment. We analysed spontaneous conversational samples from 36 late talkers and 37 typically developing five-year-olds, examining lexical entrainment patterns in high-frequency, hedge, and affirmative cue words and speech entrainment of 412 acoustic features (rhythmic, articulatory, and phonatory dimensions). Perceptual conversational quality scores were provided by raters, while cross-recurrence quantification analysis measured speech entrainment patterns. Sham conversations and machine learning identified key predictors distinguishing late talkers from controls. Our results revealed that late talkers perceptually exhibited lower conversational quality. Late talkers showed significantly lower lexical entrainment in high-frequency words but comparable use of hedge words and increased use of affirmative cue words. In speech entrainment, late talkers exhibited intermittent rather than consistent entrainment. They also exhibited more frequent but less complex speech entrainment, showing repetitive interaction patterns. Notably, late-talking children exhibited marked rigidity in articulation and reduced complexity, intermittent rhythmic entrainment, and weaker phonatory control. Finally, seven unique feature-measure matrices in late talkers, reflecting articulation and phonation stability and complexity, were significantly associated with poor conversational quality in this group. Within the framework of the Interactive Alignment Model, these findings underscore persistent disruptions in automatic entrainment processes among late talkers, contributing to reduced conversational quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143484505","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":"From semantic concreteness to concretism in schizophrenia: An automated linguistic analysis of speech produced in figurative language interpretation.","authors":"Valentina Bambini, Federico Frau, Luca Bischetti, Giulia Agostoni, Cristian Mevio, Chiara Battaglini, Margherita Bechi, Mariachiara Buonocore, Jacopo Sapienza, Marco Spangaro, Carmelo Guglielmino, Federica Cocchi, Roberto Cavallaro, Marta Bosia","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2451961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2451961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lack of abstract thinking, known as <i>concretism</i>, is a well-known psychopathological feature of schizophrenia, reflecting the tendency to adhere to concrete aspects of stimuli and figurative language comprehension difficulties. Inspired by the similarity between 'concretism' as defined in psychopathology and 'concreteness' as defined in linguistics, namely a semantic dimension linked to perceptual experience, we tested the novel hypothesis that impairment in deriving figurative meanings is related to impairment at the semantic level, involving concreteness. We analysed speech samples from 63 individuals with schizophrenia and 47 controls, who were asked to verbalise the meaning of idioms, metaphors, and proverbs. By automatically extracting linguistic features from speech, we observed that answers in the schizophrenia group exhibited higher word concreteness and the related measure of word imageability, especially in proverbs, while not differing from controls' ones in lexical richness and speech-time composition. Concreteness in verbalisations produced by individuals with schizophrenia negatively predicted their ability to understand proverbs and their global pragmatic and cognitive profile. This study supports the idea that concretism is rooted in semantics, linking the tendency to concrete figurative interpretations and a bias towards concrete words. In this view, impairment in figurative language understanding can be seen as a difficulty in abstracting away from perceptual-related properties associated with linguistic inputs, in the broader context of multisensory integration disruption. The study discloses new areas of interest for the automated analysis of speech in psychosis, pointing to the importance of considering concreteness for better characterising linguistic profiles and identifying clinically relevant linguistic dimensions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469795","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":"The role of the phonological loop and the visual sketchpad in speechreading of students with hearing loss in China.","authors":"Huina Gong, Ling Jia, Qin Peng, Ran Xiao, Jialu Fan, Jianghua Lei, Liang Chen","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2464539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2025.2464539","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study examined the role of two slave systems of working memory (WM), the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad, in the speechreading performance of Chinese students with hearing loss (HL). It was motivated by the question whether the visual speech information is processed in the phonological loop as linguistic information or as visuospatial information in visuospatial sketchpad. Seventy-three young adults with HL completed Chinese speech-reading tests (targeting monosyllabic words, disyllabic words, and sentences), the WM test batteries, and a cognitive processing speed test. The hierarchical regression analyses showed that the articulatory rehearsal process and phonological store were the most important predictors of all of the components of WM for speechreading. By contrast, performance on visual spatial working memory tasks was not significantly correlated with speechreading performance. These results demonstrated that speechreading in Chinese students with HL relies more on the efficiency of high-level phonological storing and articulatory rehearsal in the phonological loop, rather than the shallow processing of pure visual features in the visuospatial sketchpad.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143434215","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}