{"title":"Predictive value of pre-reading skills and general language ability at 3;6 for pre-reading skills at 5;0 - a longitudinal comparison study.","authors":"Marianna Visapää, Petriina Munck, Suvi Stolt","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2537038","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2537038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pre-reading skills (PreRS; rapid automatised naming RAN, letter knowledge LK, lexical ability and phonological processing PP) are precursory skills specific to reading, thus described as code-related. Early identification of weak PreRS is essential regarding their predictive value for reading performance. Stability of PreRS has been suggested from an early age, but information is needed regarding their associations with other linguistic skills. Further, comparison studies between code-related and general language factors are lacking. This longitudinal study compares predictive values of PreRS and general language ability at 3;6 for PreRS at 5;0. A classification based on one hereditary dyslexia risk factor (HDRF) and its associations with PreRS are tested. Participants comprised 66 healthy, monolingual Finnish-speaking children. At 3;6, RAN, LK, lexical ability and general language ability were measured using formal tests. HDRF was reported by parents. At 5;0, previous PreRS measures were repeated, and PP was measured. Significant correlations were detected between PreRS at 3;6 and 5;0 (r .30-.76). Associations between general language ability and later PreRS were comparable (r .29-.52). In the regression analysis, PreRS explained 45%, general language ability 37% and their combined model 49% of variation in later PreRS. The model with both code-related and general language predictors fitted the data best (AIC, BIC). Groups with no or at least one HDRF differed significantly in RAN at 5;0. The findings underline the developmentally stability of early PreRS and the good explanatory value of general language ability for PreRS just before school. Information on both components is recommended when designing pre-reading interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"288-305"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144754969","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 syllable-based approach to whole-word phonology.","authors":"Clifton Pye, Donald N Stengel","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2516462","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2516462","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents the Correct Syllables and Consonants (CSC) measure of whole-word phonology. The CSC refines Ingram's Phonological Mean Length of Utterance (PMLU) by adding a syllable component and simplifying the PMLU scoring procedure for consonants. Like PMLU, CSC provides a preliminary assessment of a child's phonology based on the observation that children are word oriented. The syllable component in CSC captures a prosodic component of whole-word phonology thereby rationalising the scoring procedure for syllabic consonants. The syllable component also links the CSC to broader measures of grammatical development. We demonstrate the CSC procedure in analysing language samples from a typically developing child and a child with phonological impairment. We validate the CSC measure by examining its correlation with PMLU in speech samples of two-year-old typically developing children acquiring six languages. The high correlation of CSC with PMLU establishes the cross-linguistic validity of CSC as a measure of whole-word phonology.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"227-249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318445","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}
Claudia Maggiulli, Laura Zampini, Martina Paini, Elisa Granocchio, Daniela Sarti
{"title":"Comparison of communicative-linguistic indices between Late Talkers and typically developing children through the Dynamic Communication Evaluation coding scheme.","authors":"Claudia Maggiulli, Laura Zampini, Martina Paini, Elisa Granocchio, Daniela Sarti","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2517322","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2517322","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Late Talkers (LTs) are at risk for persistent developmental language disorders and show a slowdown in the acquisition of both language and communication skills. The Dynamic Communication Evaluation (DCE) is an event-based coding scheme for the analysis of intentional communicative acts produced via parental interaction, including categories of socio-communicative pragmatics and structural linguistic complexity. This cross-sectional observational study compares the communicative-linguistic competencies detected through the DCE of LTs with those of typical development children. The participants included 19 LT children (24-38 months old) with a vocabulary size lower than the 5th percentile on the Italian version of the MacArthur-Bates CDI, and the findings were compared to the performance of 19 typically developing (TD) children (25-37 months old). The groups were matched for chronological age. Correlations between communicative and linguistic labels and age were found in the LT group in greater numbers than in the TD group. A comparison between the two groups revealed lower abilities in LT than TD children in communicative-pragmatic indices - such as joint attention, responsiveness, and request of information - and in linguistic indices. Socio-communicative pragmatic, lexical, morphosyntactic, and phonological skills influenced each other during development in children with slow language emergence. The findings have clinical implications regarding early identification. Systematic observations appear to have clinical value because they support quantitative and qualitative data collection and guide intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"250-266"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610142","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":"Morphological awareness and self-efficacy of speech and language pathologists, classroom teachers and special education teachers in Türkiye.","authors":"Semra Selvi-Balo, Buğse Durmuş, Havva Nur Yirtik, Sacide Ebrar Geçay, Batuhan Ökte, Rojda Özalp Bakla, Burcu Akçay","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2526203","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2526203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a component of metalinguistic knowledge, morphological awareness is intricately tied in with literacy skills. Hence, an adequate command of morphological awareness by the professionals providing therapy and education to school-age children is important forchildren's language and literacy skills. The current research aimed to assess and compare the self-efficacy and morphological awareness of speech and language pathologists (SLPs), classroom teachers (CTs), and special education teachers (SETs). A total of 258 individuals participated in the study - SLPs (n = 86), CTs (n = 77) and SETs (n = 95). A four-part survey composed of 30 Likert-type, short-answer, or multiple-choice items was sent to the participants through e-mails or social media. Data were analyzed via descriptive and comparative analysis methods. The findings showed that all the participants' self-efficacy levels were higher than half of all available points, suggesting confidence in their morphological awareness (M = 20.9, SD = 4.23). Furthermore, the results yielded no statistical difference among the three groups' self-efficacy scores. The morphological awareness of the participants was assessed through two tasks, morpheme counting and morpheme selection in nonwords, producing significant differences among the groups. The analyses indicated that the SLPs' morphological awareness was significantly higher than that of the educators (<i>p</i><.05). The results suggest that SLPs and teachers should collaborate to improve children's literacy skills and that all professionals should enhance their morphological awareness.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"267-287"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144795967","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 processability theory perspective on morphosyntax in school-age children with developmental language disorder.","authors":"Gisela Håkansson, Nelli Kalnak","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2499147","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2499147","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the production of morphosyntax in Swedish-speaking children diagnosed with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Data from a Sentence Repetition Task was used to investigate if there is an implicational order according to Processability Theory (PT) in grammatical structures produced by school-age children with DLD. PT is a cognitive theory of language development that assumes five implicational stages of morphosyntactic development. The analysis was based on a selection of sentences representing the different PT stages. The participants (<i>n</i> = 49; 6;5-11;5 years of age) were recruited from school language units for children with DLD. The results confirm an implicational order: the participants produced structures from a higher stage only if they also produced structures from lower stages. It is suggested that the developmental hierarchy can be used in the intervention of children with DLD by focusing on the next stage. Also, only 26.5% of the participants achieved PT stage 4, and one child (2%) reached the highest PT stage 5. This is discussed in relation to what is known regarding PT stages in typically developing children, as well as associations with language, memory, and non-verbal measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"140-153"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144005435","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}
Katarina L Haley, Jessica D Richardson, Tyson G Harmon, Peter Turkeltaub, Adam Jacks
{"title":"Phonemic simplification in apraxia of speech and aphasia with phonemic paraphasia.","authors":"Katarina L Haley, Jessica D Richardson, Tyson G Harmon, Peter Turkeltaub, Adam Jacks","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2498437","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2498437","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are varied reports about the extent to which people with apraxia of speech (AOS) simplify the phonemic complexity of utterances they attempt to produce and whether the degree to which they do so might inform differential diagnosis relative to aphasia with phonemic paraphasia (APP). Our study purpose was to determine whether either or both diagnostic groups simplify the phonemic content for words they repeat during a typical motor speech evaluation. 195 people with aphasia after stroke were assigned to four diagnostic groups based on quantitative metrics of core speech criteria for AOS and APP. In addition to the target groups, the sample was divided into a borderline group with equivocal feature combinations (BL) and a group with minimal sound production errors (MIN). Monosyllabic, disyllabic, and multisyllabic words were transcribed phonetically and scored for phonemic complexity. The ratio of produced complexity relative to target complexity - the word complexity measure (WCM) ratio - was compared across groups. According to the WCM ratio, participants in all four groups, including the group with minimal speech sound involvement, simplified more productions than they complicated. Those who produced the most speech sound errors also displayed greater phonemic simplification. People with stroke-induced aphasia sometimes produce words that are phonemic complications of targets, but more often they simplify the phonemic output. We conclude that phonemic simplification at the word level has limited value for differentiating clinically between AOS and APP. Future research should consider comparing alternative simplification measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"121-139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13502991/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143992323","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}
Teja Rebernik, Jidde Jacobi, Mark Tiede, Martijn Wieling
{"title":"Using electromagnetic articulography to investigate tongue, lip and jaw tremor associated with Parkinson's disease.","authors":"Teja Rebernik, Jidde Jacobi, Mark Tiede, Martijn Wieling","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2501072","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2501072","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tremor in Parkinson's disease is most frequently studied in the limbs, even though it also occurs in the vocal tract. In the current study, we assessed the presence of tongue, lip and jaw tremor in 34 individuals with Parkinson's disease (IwPD) and 25 controls (CS). We used electromagnetic articulography sensors attached to the tongue, the lips, and the jaw to measure orolingual tremor while the participants were performing a series of tasks. Additionally, we acoustically measured frequency and amplitude tremor of the voice in a sustained phonation task. Our findings revealed that IwPD showed significantly more tongue, lip, and jaw tremor than CS. Kinematic tremor frequency and RMS amplitude did not differ between IwPD and CS. We found no group difference in voice tremor prevalence or frequency in our acoustic analysis. While intensity and power indices seemed stronger in IwPD compared to CS, these differences were not significant. We show that electromagnetic articulography is suited for identifying orolingual tremor. While kinematic tremor was more prevalent in IwPD, it also appeared in CS, underlining the importance of including control participants in this type of study.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"154-173"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144152657","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":"Lexical network properties in aphasic discourse production.","authors":"Juqiang Chen, Hui Chang","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2507049","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2507049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Evaluating discourse production provides an effective means of assessing the language competence of persons with aphasia (PWA) in naturalistic and ecologically valid communication contexts. Existing research on PWA discourse has focused on discrete linguistic measures such as sample length or type-token ratios. To provide a holistic view of the interconnections of linguistic entities in PWA discourse, this study compared the lexical networks of discourse produced by PWA with those by healthy controls. At the macro level, PWA networks showed a smaller size and diameter but higher density compared to those of healthy controls. In addition, networks of both groups showed small-world characteristics. However, the degree of small-worldness was lower for the networks of PWA compared to those of healthy controls. At the meso level, network modularity measures of healthy controls were larger than those of PWA in the story-narrative task. At the micro level, the degrees of nodes in the networks of both groups followed a power-law distribution, suggesting that their networks were scale-free. Our findings reveal that lexical networks of PWA discourse are constrained and less efficient but still retain some basic characteristics of typical language networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"187-205"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144210041","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":"Stuttering in Mandarin-speaking adults.","authors":"Yuting Song, Michael P Robb, Yong Yang, Yang Chen","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2507045","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2507045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mandarin, a tonal language, features four distinct lexical tones (T1, T2, T3, T4) and one neutral tone (T0), each with unique pitch variations. This exploratory study examined the relationship between these tones and stuttering in 26 Mandarin-speaking adults. The amount of stuttering that occurred for each type of tone was identified and analysed according to absolute occurrence across tones, as well as the relative occurrence within each type of tone. Significant differences were found in absolute occurrence of stuttering across tones with the neutral tone (T0) showing the lowest stuttering frequency and T3 and T4 the highest. The relative occurrence of stuttering also identified the lowest stuttering for T0; however, the four lexical tones did not significantly differ. The results suggest that a specific type of lexical tone is unlikely to trigger a moment of stutter. Rather, it is the variation in tonal patterns during the speech stream that leads to a disruption in fluency.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"174-186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144143130","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}
Seung-Yun Yang, Akiko Fuse, Diana Sidtis, Seung Nam Yang
{"title":"Production of different types of familiar expressions by individuals with left- and right-hemisphere damage across discourse elicitation tasks.","authors":"Seung-Yun Yang, Akiko Fuse, Diana Sidtis, Seung Nam Yang","doi":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2485077","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699206.2025.2485077","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to explore the production of familiar expressions (e.g. idioms, proverbs and pause fillers), including different subtypes, and their variation across different types of elicited discourse in individuals with aphasia due to left hemisphere damage (LHD) and those with right hemisphere damage (RHD) to healthy control (HCs). Twenty-nine individuals (12 with LHD, 8 with RHD and 9 HCs) provided elicited discourse samples during four tasks (free speech, picture description, story narrative and procedural tasks) from TalkBank (AphasiaBank and RHDBank). Familiar expressions were categorised into two broad types: nuanced (conveying emotional or attitudinal meaning) and non-nuanced (literal and speech-flow enhancing). Results showed that individuals with LHD produced more familiar expressions, especially nuanced ones, than those with RHD or HCs. A correlation was found between aphasia severity and the production of familiar expressions, with individuals who had more severe language impairments producing a higher proportion of familiar expressions in some tasks. No significant task differences in familiar expression production were observed among the groups. This study revealed that brain damage affects the production of familiar expressions, with individuals with LHD using them more frequently and in a more nuanced manner. In contrast, individuals with RHD had difficulty producing familiar expressions. Clinically, this underscores the importance of considering hemisphere-specific deficits when assessing and treating language impairments in individuals with brain damage, as therapies may need to be tailored to address the distinct challenges faced by individuals with LHD versus RHD.</p>","PeriodicalId":49219,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics","volume":" ","pages":"58-77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796839","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}