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Título : Consistency of a nonword repetition task to discriminate children with and without developmental language disorder in catalan-spanish and european portuguese speaking children
Autoría: Ahufinger, Nadia  
Berglund Barraza, Amy
Cruz Santos, Anabela
Ferinu, Laura  
Andreu, Llorenç  
Sanz-Torrent, Mònica  
Evans, Julia L.
Otros: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Minho
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
Citación : Ahufinger, N., Berglund Barraza, A., Cruz Santos, A., Ferinu, L., Andreu, L., Sanz Torrent, M. & Evans, J. (2021). Consistency of a Nonword Repetition Task to Discriminate Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder in Catalan-Spanish and European Portuguese Speaking Children. Children, 8(2), 1-30. doi: 10.3390/children8020085
Resumen : Nonword repetition has been proposed as a diagnostic marker of developmental language disorder (DLD); however, the inconsistency in the ability of nonword repetition tasks (NRT) to identify children with DLD raises significant questions regarding its feasibility as a clinical tool. Research suggests that some of the inconsistency across NRT may be due to differences in the nature of the nonword stimuli. In this study, we compared children's performance on NRT between two cohorts: the children in the Catalan-Spanish cohort (CS) were bilingual, and the children in the European Portuguese cohort (EP) were monolingual. NRT performance was assessed in both Spanish and Catalan for the bilingual children from Catalonia-Spain and in Portuguese for the monolingual children from Portugal. Results show that although the absolute performance differed across the two cohorts, with NRT performance being lower for the CS, in both Catalan and Spanish, as compared to the EP cohort in both, the cut-points for the likelihood ratios (LH) were similar across the three languages and mirror those previously reported in previous studies. However, the absolute LH ratio values for this study were higher than those reported in prior research due in part to differences in wordlikeness and frequency of the stimuli in the current study. Taken together, the findings from this study show that an NRT consisting of 3-, 4-, and 5-syllable nonwords, which varies in wordlikeness ratings, when presented in a random order accurately identifies and correctly differentiates children with DLD from TD controls the child is bilingual or monolingual.
Palabras clave : trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje (DLD)
deterioro específico del lenguaje (SLI)
marcadores de diagnóstico de DLD / SLI
índice de probabilidad
portugués europeo
DOI: 10.3390/children8020085
Tipo de documento: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Versión del documento: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Fecha de publicación : 26-ene-2021
Licencia de publicación: https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/  
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