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{"title":"Narratives of Chinese kindergarteners with Autism spectrum disorder: Comparison with typically developing children.","authors":"Chengqi He, Shoko Miyamoto, Yu Lin","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2451968","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2451968","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an early-onset neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by highly heterogeneous language abilities. These variations necessitate sensitive and comprehensive assessments, with narrative analysis being an effective method. This study aimed to examine the micro- and macrostructural aspects of narratives of Mandarin-speaking children with ASD. 19 children with ASD (mean age = 5.57 years; standard deviation [SD] = 1.09) and 19 age-matched typically developing (TD) children (mean age = 5.14 years; SD = 0.09) were enrolled in this study. The Narrative Assessment Protocol (NAP-2) was used to obtain the children's narrative samples. Children's wordless picture book-based narrations were analysed for story length (total number of words and utterances), linguistic abilities (mean length of utterances, mean length of the five longest utterances, number of different words, and vocabulary diversity), and NAP-2 scores (total scores, story grammar, storytelling convention, simple sentence structure, complex sentence structure, word and phrase). After applying Bonferroni's adjustment (α = 0.0042), no significant differences were observed in linguistic performance or story length between the two groups. However, children with ASD showed significantly lower total scores (<i>t</i> = 3.25, <i>p</i> = 0.002), story grammar scores (<i>t</i> = 3.17, <i>p</i> = 0.003), and storytelling convention scores (<i>t</i> = 3.04, <i>p</i> = 0.004). These findings suggest that young Chinese children with ASD may exhibit comparable microstructural narrative abilities but face significant challenges in macrostructural narrative skills, such as organising episodic structures. This underscores the need for targeted interventions to enhance the macro-narrative skills in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1117-1141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034636","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 linguistic and narrative competence in Italian children with developmental language disorder: A comparative study with typically developing peers.","authors":"Paola Zanchi, Alessandra Provera, Laura Zampini","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2456216","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2456216","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a clinical condition characterised by language difficulties without cognitive or neurological impairments, leading to communication and learning challenges. The study explores the narrative and linguistic abilities of children with DLD and Typically Developing (TD) peers by analysing both macrostructural and microstructural aspects of their narrative production elicited during a storytelling task and describing the types of grammatical and lexical errors. Participants included 19 children with expressive DLD aged 4-8 years and 19 TD children matched by age and gender. Narrative competence was assessed using the Narrative Competence Task (NCT), a storytelling task which evaluates narratives at both the macrostructure and microstructure levels. The grammatical and lexical errors were coded using an <i>ad hoc</i> coding scheme based on the existing literature. The results showed no significant differences in macrostructural aspects of narratives between the two groups. However, at the microstructural level, children with DLD produced shorter utterances. Considering the type of errors produced in narratives, overall, children in the two groups made a small amount of errors (with an average of 2 errors in 100 words). The study contributes to deepening our understanding of the linguistic profile of Italian children with expressive DLD, emphasising the importance of tailored interventions and personalised training programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1154-1168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014342","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":"Correction.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2594233","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2594233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"i"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145607093","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":"Production of the adjective and possessive markers <i>de</i> in Chinese post-stroke aphasia.","authors":"Shengnan Ma, Hui Chang, Boping Yuan, Lilong Xu, Haiyan Wang","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2447531","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2447531","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has shown that patients with post-stroke aphasia may encounter difficulties in producing inflectional morphemes. Interestingly, they also show distinct challenges with the inflectional morphemes of homophones, such as the plural marker <i>s</i> and the possessive marker <i>'s</i> in English. However, previous studies have predominantly focused on morphemes in European languages. Inflectional morphemes that are homophones are common in Chinese. It is necessary to investigate whether Chinese speakers with post-stroke aphasia also show variable patterns of more or less impaired performance with the inflectional morphemes of homophones in Chinese. This study aimed to examine whether Chinese speakers with stroke aphasia exhibit differential performance in producing the adjective marker <i>de</i> and the possessive marker <i>de</i>, although they have identical pronunciation and written form. An elicitation task was administered on 20 patients with post-stroke aphasia and 20 healthy Chinese speakers. The results showed that Chinese speakers with stroke aphasia produced the adjective marker <i>de</i> at a significantly higher accuracy rate than the possessive marker <i>de</i>, while nearly all the healthy Chinese speakers produced both the adjective marker <i>de</i> and the possessive marker <i>de</i> correctly. This indicates that Chinese speakers with stroke aphasia exhibited superior production of the adjective marker <i>de</i> compared to the possessive marker <i>de</i>. This discrepancy in performance may be attributed to the more complex syntactic structure associated with the possessive marker <i>de</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1054-1069"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142923763","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":"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":"1070-1092"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","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":"Contribution of an academic writing intervention on the micro-macrostructure skills of students with intellectual disability.","authors":"Carmit Altman, Hadas Dueck, Shlomit Shnitzer-Meirovich, Hefziba Lifshitz","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2421836","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2421836","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Academic writing is a complex task involving microstructure (linguistic-level) and macrostructure (coherence structure) indices. Our goal was to examine the contribution of an academic writing intervention programme among students with intellectual disability at the microstructure and macrostructure levels while characterising the learning curves. Six students with mild intellectual disability studying for a BA (MCA = 30.43, MIQ = 69.17) participated in a spiral intervention programme of 32 lessons focusing on improving paragraph complexity and text structure measured at five time-points. Microstructure improvement in number of words, sentences, paragraphs, words per paragraph, lexical density, adjectives along with macrostructure improvement in text-paragraph structure, global-local linkage were found. A rapid increase in macrostructure indices was observed between the first and second testing points, after which a ceiling effect was reached. Concurrently, microstructure indices demonstrated a slower, more gradual learning curve throughout the intervention period. The discussion will focus on the improvement patterns in microstructure-macrostructure indices and the various learning curves observed. It explores the implications of these findings for cognitive modifiability in adults with intellectual disability and the potential of tailored academic writing interventions in post-secondary education programmes.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1009-1032"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591946","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":"Consonant articulation accuracy in paediatric cochlear implant recipients.","authors":"Mackenzie Lighterink, Ferenc Bunta, René H Gifford, Stephen Camarata","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2439912","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2439912","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hearing loss is a significant risk factor for delays in the spoken language development of children. The purpose of this study was to examine the distribution of articulation errors for English consonants among children with cochlear implants (CIs) who utilise auditory-oral communication. Speech samples from 45 prelingually deafened paediatric CI users were obtained using a single-word picture elicitation task. Samples were audio recorded and transcribed in PRAAT; overall percentage consonant correct (PCC) and individual phoneme error patterns were examined. Results showed an average PCC of 76.49% and participants exhibited lower accuracy in producing several consonants that are late acquired by typically hearing and developing children. In comparison to previous studies of children with severe-to-profound hearing loss who did not use CIs, participants in this study were more accurate in their production of most fricatives and affricates. Surprisingly, some phonemes that are acquired early in typically developing populations and that have high visual salience, specifically the nasal bilabial stop, /m/, were produced with relatively lower accuracy than would be expected based on published research. In comparison to voiced and voiceless oral bilabial stops, /b/ and /p/, /m/ was subject to substantially more place of articulation errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1033-1053"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12177097/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142856063","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}

{"title":"Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for the diagnosis of pronunciation of speech sound disorders in Korean children.","authors":"Taekyung Ahn, Yeonjung Hong, Younggon Im, Do Hyung Kim, Dayoung Kang, Joo Won Jeong, Jae Won Kim, Min Jung Kim, Ah-Ra Cho, Hosung Nam, Dae-Hyun Jang","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2387609","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2387609","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study presents a model of automatic speech recognition (ASR) that is designed to diagnose pronunciation issues in children with speech sound disorders (SSDs) to replace manual transcriptions in clinical procedures. Because ASR models trained for general purposes mainly predict input speech into standard spelling words, well-known high-performance ASR models are not suitable for evaluating pronunciation in children with SSDs. We fine-tuned the wav2vec2.0 XLS-R model to recognise words as they are pronounced by children, rather than converting the speech into their standard spelling words. The model was fine-tuned with a speech dataset of 137 children with SSDs pronouncing 73 Korean words that are selected for actual clinical diagnosis. The model's Phoneme Error Rate (PER) was only 10% when its predictions of children's pronunciations were compared to human annotations of pronunciations as heard. In contrast, despite its robust performance on general tasks, the state-of-the-art ASR model Whisper showed limitations in recognising the speech of children with SSDs, with a PER of approximately 50%. While the model still requires improvement in terms of the recognition of unclear pronunciation, this study demonstrates that ASR models can streamline complex pronunciation error diagnostic procedures in clinical fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"913-926"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005684","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":"Factors associated with nonword repetition skills in 4-to 6-year-old deaf and hard-of-hearing and typically hearing children.","authors":"Sari Kunnari, Taina Välimaa, Krista Tuohimaa, Johanna Hautala, Anna-Kaisa Tolonen, Satu Rimmanen, Tanja Tennilä, Teija Tsupari, Sari Vikman, Nonna Virokannas, Antti A Aarnisalo, Aarno Dietz, Antti Hyvärinen, Jaakko Laitakari, Sari Mykkänen, Jaakko Salonen, Ville Sivonen, Heikki Löppönen","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2390502","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2390502","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children identified as deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) exhibit an increased risk of speech and language difficulties. Nonword repetition (NWR) is a potential tool for identifying language difficulties in children with limited experience with the target language. In this study, we explored associations between auditory, linguistic, demographic and cognitive factors and NWR performance in DHH children and their typically hearing (TH) peers. We also examined the effect of the group on NWR outcomes when different factors were statistically controlled for. Our study included 68 4- to 6-year-old children: 18 with bilateral hearing aids (BiHAs), 18 with bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) and 32 with TH. The participants completed the Finnish Nonword Repetition Test comprising 24 test items with varying syllable lengths. The assessment methods also included tests of phonological, lexical, language comprehension and sentence repetition skills, along with a measure of nonverbal intelligence. The results showed that none of the auditory, linguistic, demographic and cognitive factors examined in the present study were correlated with NWR performance in the BiHA group, while significant correlations between NWR skills and linguistic abilities were observed in the BiCI group. The DHH children showed extraordinary difficulties in NWR compared to their TH peers, and these group differences remained after controlling for linguistic and demographic variables. The NWR task may be a potential clinical tool for identifying DHH children at risk for poor language outcomes and in need of speech and language intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"946-963"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142019266","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 assessment and analysis tools for Polish: Construction and use.","authors":"Paulina Zydorowicz, Barbara May Bernhardt, Ewa Kaptur","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2387611","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2024.2387611","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution presents tools for the assessment of phonological development of Polish-learning children and an initial qualitative evaluation thereof. The tools are consistent with those developed for 16 other languages in a cross-linguistic study of phonological development that is embedded in the framework of constraint-based nonlinear phonology. This theoretical foundation underlies the composition of a Polish word list for elicitation plus a supplementary analysis and intervention planning form (where intervention is warranted). A qualitative pilot study evaluated the tools in terms of adherence to underlying theoretical constructs, coverage of Polish phonology in the developmental context and utility for testing two children, one of whom was characterised by protracted phonological development. Further steps are required to develop the test into a norm-referenced instrument for clinical and research purposes, including quantitative evaluations of the tools' psychometric properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"927-945"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141976966","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}