Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics最新文献

{"title":"An exploration of aphasia symptom profiles in speakers of Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic).","authors":"Johanne S K Nedergaard, Frederikke M Simonsen, Naja B Trondhjem, Roelien Bastiaanse, Malu A Hendriksen, Mads Nielsen, Kasper Boye","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2622049","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2622049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research into language disorders such as aphasia and what they can reveal about the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language should be informed by crosslinguistic descriptions. It is particularly important to include languages that are highly dissimilar to widely studied languages like English. Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) is one such language - a polysynthetic language of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language family spoken by approximately 60,000 people in Greenland and Denmark. Previous research has indicated that non-fluent aphasia in Kalaallisut exhibits different features from those found in English and similar Indo-European languages. However, previous research in this area has been limited by a low number of participants, a focus only on semispontaneous speech narratives, and the fact that a more complete description of aphasia in Kalaallisut has not been available. An essential prerequisite for incorporating data from an underresearched language in aphasiology is having sufficient information to reliably identify speakers with aphasia in that language. Gaining such information was the main aim of the present study where we tested a total of 42 speakers of Kalaallisut on repetition tests, language production tests, language comprehension tests, and working memory tests. We used a combination of qualitative judgements by a speech and language pathologist and hierarchical cluster analysis to analyse the results and were able to distinguish between presence or absence of aphasia, between levels of severity of aphasia, between apraxia of speech/dysarthria and aphasia, and to some extent between different aphasia subtypes.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"823-852"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146151063","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 short-term longitudinal study on the development of agreement in Italian: Syntactic configurations and non-word repetition as predictors of grammatical development in monolingual, bilingual and children with DLD.","authors":"Giuditta Smith, Benedetta Bianchi Janetti, Camilla Piccioli, Vincenzo Moscati","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2622050","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2622050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate grammatical learning in Italian through a multipoint assessment over a short period (3 months), aiming to evaluate the potential of a longitudinal measure to differentiate between typical bilingual development and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Seventy-five children aged 4-6 years were tested and assigned to three groups: monolingual typically developing (TD), bilingual TD, and monolingual DLD. Participants completed standardised measures of language development at screening (nonword repetition, NWR; and sentence comprehension, BVL_Comp) and a forced-choice grammatical task measuring accuracy on agreement structures at Time 1 (T1) and 3 months apart at Time 2 (T2). No overall significant between-group differences were found in longitudinal change. However, within-group analyses revealed important diagnostic patterns. For bilingual TD - but not for children with DLD - longitudinal improvement in grammatical accuracy correlated positively with NWR scores obtained at screening, confirming NWR's predictive value for short-term grammatical growth. Within the DLD group, a significant divergence emerged between subtypes: children with Expressive DLD showed greater improvement than those with Receptive/Expressive DLD, who continued to exhibit persistent morphological difficulties. Theoretically, our findings confirm group- differences in the acquisition of agreement structures (Subject - Verb > Clitic - Past Participle) and demonstrate that children's sensitivity to agreement morphology serves as a reliable proxy for overall grammatical development given the positive correlation with standardised scores on a sentence comprehension task (BVL_Compr). Although longitudinal changes in grammatical accuracy over 3 months were modest, subgroup patterns highlight the diagnostic potential of fine-grained, short-term longitudinal measures in distinguishing between profiles of language impairment and bilingual development.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"853-878"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146221535","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 skills and executive function in Mandarin-speaking children aged 3-5 with hearing impairment.","authors":"Yuchen Pan","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2639395","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2639395","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study investigates phonological skills and executive function (EF) in prelingually hearing-impaired (HI) children aged 3-5, and examines the associations between these domains and related factors. Seventy five HI preschoolers and 75 age-matched typically developing (TD) children participated in the study. All underwent assessments of working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility. Phonological recognition was assessed using <i>the Phonological Equilibrium Recognition Scale</i>, while phonological production was evaluated with <i>the Chinese Vocabulary List for Phonetic Ability</i>. HI children exhibited significant delays in both phonological skills and EF relative to TD peers. Phonological performance was associated with hearing status and age, whereas EF performance was primarily linked to age. Correlation and regression analyses revealed that phonological production was significantly associated with multiple EF components. Phonological recognition was primarily related to inhibitory control and hearing thresholds. Critically, regression models showed a pattern of unique interconnections: phonological production was independently associated with working memory and inhibitory control, which were also significantly associated with phonological skills. Preschool-aged HI children show co-occurring deficits in phonological processing and executive function, which are closely associated in a reciprocal pattern. These findings suggest the potential value of early integrated interventions targeting both phonological and cognitive skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"895-915"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147379234","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 phonetics and phonology in speech and language therapy training.","authors":"L M Dal'Ava","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2721344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2721344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148841845","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 peer interactions in a special education setting: Alignment and affiliation in reciprocal registering sequences.","authors":"Natalie Skinner, Scott Barnes","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2718312","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2718312","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>School is integral to the social lives of children. At school, children build relationships over time through successful interactions with their peers and teachers. A pervasive social action, registering (drawing mutual attention to a publicly perceptible referent), is a documented means of initiating interaction and building affiliation in childhood. This study uses conversation analysis to examine how children (aged 5-12) with a communication disability respond to registering in 5.6 hours of audiovisual recordings at an Australian English‑speaking special education primary school. 'Reciprocal registering' was identified as a recurring form of response. Reciprocal registering accomplished alignment and affiliation. In some interactions, however, moments of 'self-orientation' affected alignment and affiliation. This study contributes to our understanding of how children with a communication disability conduct social interactions with their peers in discrete social action sequences. The findings of this study demonstrate that professional understandings of communicative competence should reflect the dynamics and pressures of interaction and suggest a role for notions of agency in informing them.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148819942","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":"Preliminary findings into speech inconsistency in dialectal Cypriot-Greek speaking children: A comparison between children with typical development and speech sound disorders.","authors":"Theodora Papastefanou, Kakia Petinou","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2713444","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2713444","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Speech sound disorders (SSD) are highly prevalent in preschool-aged children, yet their identification remains challenging in linguistically diverse contexts where speech variability may reflect dialectal difference rather than disorder. The present study investigated whether token-to-token speech inconsistency differentiates dialectal Cypriot-Greek-speaking children with typical development (TD) from peers with SSD. Twenty preschoolers (mean age = 5;6) participated: 10 with TD and 10 with SSD. Speech inconsistency was assessed using the DO.KI.GLO Inconsistency Protocol, a Cypriot-Greek adaptation of the DEAP inconsistency subtest, eliciting three productions of 25 familiar lexical items. Inconsistency was operationalised as phonological variation across repeated tokens and quantified using an Inconsistency Index. Results revealed a substantial group difference: children with SSD produced significantly higher inconsistency scores than TD peers (71.3% vs. 2.3%), with a large effect size. Nine of ten children in the SSD group exceeded the 40% threshold associated with Inconsistent Phonological Disorder. Qualitative analyses further differentiated groups, with TD variability reflecting predictable developmental substitutions, while SSD variability involved multi-feature, unpredictable substitutions, omissions, and distortions. These preliminary findings provide initial evidence supporting the clinical relevance of speech inconsistency in a dialectal context and highlight the importance of combining quantitative and qualitative analyses within culturally and linguistically sensitive assessment protocols for accurate SSD identification and subtyping.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148814725","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":"Nonlinear evaluation of multisyllabic word productions of Persian-speaking children's phonologies in the context of social communication disorder intervention.","authors":"Pegah Nikrah, Elena Babatsouli","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2713458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2713458","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined phonological skills in three Persian-speaking boys with social communication disorder (SCD; ages 3;7-5;1) across twelve sessions of a narrative-based intervention, with a focus on multisyllabic word production. Using a nonlinear phonological framework, performance was analysed through segmental accuracy (percentage of consonants correct, PCC) and whole-word measures, including phonological mean length of utterance (pMLU), proportion of whole-word proximity (PWP), whole-word accuracy (WWA), and correct syllables and consonants (CSC), alongside structural indices and phonological process analysis (SODA). Results showed that multisyllabic words were more vulnerable to prosodic and structural constraints than monosyllabic words, despite stable segmental accuracy (PCC > 90%). Omission, substitution, and cluster reduction predominated, indicating structural and prosodic challenges rather than articulatory imprecision. Whole-word and prosodic measures captured variability not reflected in PCC, demonstrating that multisyllabic analysis within a nonlinear framework provides a more sensitive and ecologically valid index of phonological organisation in Persian-speaking children with SCD.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809390","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":"Speech-music therapy for children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech and intellectual disability: A multiple single-subject design study.","authors":"Mirjam van Tellingen, Joost Hurkmans, Hayo Terband, Anne Marie van de Zande, Ben Maassen, Roel Jonkers","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2715556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2715556","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a rare condition in the general population, but it is more prevalent in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. 75% of children with CAS also have intellectual disability (ID), but these children are rarely included in treatment studies. In this study, the effectiveness of Speech-Music Therapy for Aphasia and Apraxia (SMTA) is evaluated in the treatment of children with CAS+ID. SMTA was evaluated in a multiple-single subject design study, comparing 10 weeks of treatment with two months of no treatment in four participants. They varied in the severity of ID. Intelligibility in daily communication improved for all children. For three children there was no generalisation of gains in trained items to other speech tasks. Severity of ID may play a role in this. Adjustments in treatment duration and outcome measures are necessary to adequately assess the effectiveness of treatments in children with CAS+ID.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809439","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":"Adapting computerised language sample analysis for Jamaican Creole-Jamaican English-speaking preschoolers: A pilot study.","authors":"Nicole B M Bazzocchi, Koubra Hassan Haggar, Kereisha Biggs, Jennifer Vannest, Karla N Washington","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2713439","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2713439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This pilot study examines the feasibility of adapting the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) for Jamaican Creole-Jamaican English-speaking preschoolers. Standard SALT protocols, designed for monolingual English speakers, risk misrepresenting bilingual children's language skills by failing to account for cross-linguistic transfer. This study proposed a customised coding protocol to capture cross-linguistic transfer patterns and compared outcomes across typically developing (TD) children and those with developmental language disorder (DLD). Findings revealed that standard SALT coding significantly overestimated grammatical errors 20%-30% compared to the adapted protocol. While overall cross-linguistic transfer patterns did not differ between TD and DLD groups, differences in transfer types were observed. These results underscore the importance of culturally responsive adaptations to computerised language sample analysis and offer a framework for extending SALT to underrepresented bilingual populations. As such, this study highlights the diagnostic potential of adapted coding and the need for refined grammaticality norms in bilingual assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13574240/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809424","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":"The power of adaptation: Multilingual localisation of extIPA for clinical phonetics and cross-linguistic speech assessment.","authors":"Ines Carović, Martin J Ball, Daniel Bérubé, Chiara Meluzzi, Nicole Müller, Ioannis Papakyritsis, Tomislav Ivanjko","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2026.2718260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2026.2718260","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet (extIPA) support clinical transcription of atypical and disordered speech, but their chart metalanguage is primarily available in English. This article presents a feasibility study of multilingual extIPA localisation as clinical phonetic infrastructure rather than as an outcome intervention. A version-specified, language-agnostic workflow was developed and implemented across six languages: Croatian, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Welsh. The workflow decomposed extIPA chart metalanguage into 78 conceptual units, yielding 624 target-language string instances, coordinated through a translation management environment and reinserted into fixed-layout chart outputs. Process evidence from language-team review and translator comments identified recurring constraints involving source-version control, chart-cell space, orthography, technical terminology, abbreviations, and retention of English labels. The study demonstrates the feasibility of coordinated, traceable, and maintainable multilingual extIPA localisation while making no claims about effects on transcription accuracy, clinical usability, or training outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148809452","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}