Johanna R Price, Karen E Pollock, D Kimbrough Oller
{"title":"Speech and language development in six infants adopted from China.","authors":"Johanna R Price, Karen E Pollock, D Kimbrough Oller","doi":"10.1080/14769670601092622","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14769670601092622","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children adopted from China currently represent the largest group of newly internationally adopted children in the US. An exploratory investigation of the communicative development of six young females adopted at ages 9 to 17 months from China by US families was conducted. Children were followed longitudinally from approximately three months post-adoption to age three years. English language skills were assessed at approximately three-month intervals, detailed communicative analyses were conducted at six months post-adoption, and outcomes were measured at three years of age. Results indicated wide variability in rates of English language development. Phonological, social-communicative, and lexical bases of communication were intact for each child at six months post-adoption. At age three years, four of the children demonstrated speech and language skills within one standard deviation of standardized test norms, one child demonstrated skills above the normal range, and one child's skills were below the normal range. This study provides evidence of the resiliency of children's language learning abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"4 2","pages":"108-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3508762/pdf/nihms375683.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31090273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syllable structure, syllable duration and final lengthening in Parkinsonian French speech","authors":"D. Duez","doi":"10.1080/14769670500485513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670500485513","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates the duration of syllables with relation to position within phrases and the pattern of segment omissions within syllables in a text read by 12 French PD patients and 12 French control subjects. Three main tendencies emerged. The first was similar duration of syllables in PD and control speech, which may result from a combination of articulatory undershoot and slowness of speech gestures. The second was a normal incidence of segment omissions in both groups: these were mostly coda consonants and/or the second member of C1C2 sequences. The third was a normal production and a strong correlation of final lengthening with the syntactic structure of sentences in both PD speech and control speech. Having analysed the results the study evaluates their implication with respect to the role of basal ganglia in the production of speech.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"4 1","pages":"45 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670500485513","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speech and language therapy services to multilingual children in Scotland and England: A comparison of three cities","authors":"I. Mennen, J. Stansfield","doi":"10.1080/14769670500272689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670500272689","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates current speech and language therapy services for multilingual children in three cities in the UK, and examines whether an equitable service is provided to multilingual children in these cities. Through a combination of questionnaires, Census data, and school population data, information was gathered about number and ratio of monolingual and multilingual children in the population, number and ratio of monolingual and multilingual children on therapy caseloads, languages spoken by the multilingual children and therapists, number and ratio of therapists working in languages other than English, availability of multilingual therapy assistants and interpreters, language(s) in which therapy is offered, training/education provided to therapists, and practising therapists' views on service provision to multilingual children. Results show that currently only one of the three cities is providing a fully equitable service for multilingual children and that there are varying levels of support which partly reflect the perceived need in each area. Conclusions drawn include the need for a change in how data on linguistic diversity in society is collected and disseminated so that informed decisions can influence the future of quality services to minority groups.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"4 1","pages":"23 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670500272689","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early lexical and morphosyntactic development in children with perinatal brain injury acquiring Croatian","authors":"Maja Cepanec, M. Ljubesic","doi":"10.1080/14769670601092630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670601092630","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to analyse early lexical and morphosyntactic development in children with perinatal brain injury acquiring Croatian. Subjects were seven monolingual children who suffered early brain injury and were selected when they started producing first word combinations and had an expressive vocabulary in a range from 50 to 200 words. A combination of parent-reports, samples of spontaneous speech and a standardized language test was used. The results were interpreted within the framework of data on language development in children with early brain injury, but also within the framework of acquiring a morphologically highly inflected language. Four of the seven subjects show delayed language expression and dissociation between language comprehension and expression. However, all subjects very early on began to use grammatical morphemes. Furthermore, an interrelation between the morphosyntactic compexity of a child's utterances and mother-child interaction patterns was found.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"24 1","pages":"128 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670601092630","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sonority and the acquisition of #sC clusters","authors":"M. Yavas","doi":"10.1080/14769670601110473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670601110473","url":null,"abstract":"Because of their rather exceptional behavior in languages, #sC clusters have been assigned a special ‘adjunct’ status and discussed separately from other (true) clusters. Support for the distinction between the two cluster types can also be found in developing phonologies. While the different (adjunct) status of #sC clusters has been agreed on, there is disagreement whether all or only some of these clusters should be considered as such. Cross-linguistic acquisition studies into the patterning of the different types of #sC clusters based on sonority can elucidate their status.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"4 1","pages":"159 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670601110473","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The acquisition of #sC-clusters in Dutch","authors":"E. Gerrits, A. Zumach","doi":"10.1080/14769670601110549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670601110549","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the acquisition of #sC and non-sC clusters by 45 Dutch children between two and three of age. The main focus of the study was to test whether the Sonority Sequencing Principle can explain correct realisations and reduction strategies in seven different #sC clusters. Target clusters were elicited in meaningful words using a picture-naming game. Results show that non-sC clusters are more accurate than #sC clusters. Within the #sC clusters, /sl/ is produced correctly most often whereas /sk/ is the most difficult cluster. In /s/ + obstruent clusters, rendition patterns obey the Sonority Sequencing Principle. This is not the case for /s/ + sononant clusters, in which the more sonorous element is retained. The rendition patterns are best explained by an interaction between sonority and the prosodic head of the cluster. An exception is /sx/, in which /s/ is retained, a pattern that follows neither Sonority nor Headedness principles.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"4 1","pages":"218 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670601110549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the acquisition of Hebrew #sC onsets","authors":"A. Ben-David","doi":"10.1080/14769670601110531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670601110531","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to examine the role of sonority in the acquisition of initial /s/-clusters in Hebrew. Data were collected from forty typically developing Hebrew-speaking children between the ages of 1;10 and 3;0. The data were elicited by means of a picture-naming task combined with a sentence completion task. Target words consisted of complex onsets, including #sC clusters. Results revealed that no significant differences were found between the correct productions of different sub-groups among the /s/-clusters. There were no differences in the correct productions of #sC in relation to different C2's or between the productions of SSP-violating clusters and the SSP-following clusters. The only distinction that did emerge was the separate distribution of ‘/s/ + [−continuant]’ versus ‘/s/ + [+continuant]’, a result that supports previous findings for the role of continuity and sonority in the deletion patterns of clusters.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"4 1","pages":"205 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670601110531","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language and disfluency: Four case studies on Spanish-English bilingual children","authors":"Sofia Carias, D. Ingram","doi":"10.1080/14769670601092663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670601092663","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of disfluency in four Spanish-English bilingual children. It was hypothesized that disfluencies would show language effects (i.e., that the rate and kinds would differ dependent on the language). Language samples were recorded from each child in both languages, transcribed, and coded for disfluencies involving repetitions, insertions, prolongations, and revisions. Evidence in support of language effects was found for each child. The children showed more disfluency in one language over the other, two doing more so for Spanish and two for English. The language used with the most disfluencies was also the language with the longer mean length of utterance, suggesting increased disfluency with increased linguistic complexity. The type of disfluency also differed between the languages for three of the children.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"4 1","pages":"149 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670601092663","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural differences in learning novel words in an attention-following versus attention-directing style","authors":"Debra C. Vigil, A. Tyler, Shawna Ross","doi":"10.1080/14769670600631016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670600631016","url":null,"abstract":"Differences in attention regulation style and their affect on word learning were explored in two different cultures, first-generation Mexican and American. Ten toddlers, five American and five Mexican-immigrant, ages 15 – 21 months, were taught nonsense words in attention-directing and attention-following styles over a two-week period. Results showed that the Mexican-immigrant children learned more words in an attention-directing style than in an attention-following style in Week One. No differences were found in vocabulary in the American children in Week One or Week Two. However, there was an overall trend that the American children learned more words than the Mexican-immigrant children in an attention-following style. These results have implications for clinical intervention.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"14 1","pages":"59 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670600631016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Thordardottir, Alyssa Rothenberg, Marie-Eve Rivard, Rebecca Naves
{"title":"Bilingual assessment: Can overall proficiency be estimated from separate measurement of two languages?","authors":"E. Thordardottir, Alyssa Rothenberg, Marie-Eve Rivard, Rebecca Naves","doi":"10.1080/14769670500215647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14769670500215647","url":null,"abstract":"It is generally recommended that bilingual children be assessed in both of their languages. However, specific procedures for such bilingual assessment and for interpretation of the results are lacking. Normally developing French – English bilingual preschool-age children were compared to monolingual children (n = 28) on expressive and receptive measures of vocabulary and syntax. Results indicated that when measured in one language only, as well as when measured by combination measures such as conceptual vocabulary, which attempt to include both languages, bilingual children may score significantly lower than monolingual peers in various aspects of language. However, the extent of the difference may depend on a number of factors, including amount of bilingual exposure, relative proficiency in the two languages, as well as language specific factors, or the specific language combination being learned by the children.","PeriodicalId":87647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multilingual communication disorders","volume":"77 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14769670500215647","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60002449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}