Differences between performance on phonological awareness and prosodic stress awareness tasks in school children with Developmental Language Disorder

Valeska Torres-Bustos, Bernardo Riffo-Ocares, Katia Sáez-Carrillo

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Abstract

Background and objective: Prosodic stress awareness is a metalinguistic ability that develops in parallel to other abilities such as phonological awareness (PhA). The objectives of this article are: to determine prosodic stress awareness the of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in second and fourth grade elementary school children, Prosodic stress awareness and PhA are related to each other and, to determine if those eventual relations are presented equally in individuals of second and fourth grade of primary education. Materials and method: 131 children participated in the study, 76 in the 2nd grade of primary school (PS) (26 DLD and 50 without DLD) and 55 children in the 4th grade of PS (22 DLD and 33 without DLD). Two prosodic stress awareness tests were used: lexical accent test and metric accent test, and 2 tests of PhA. Results and conclusions: The results show that children with DLD present difficulties in prosodic stress awareness regardless of grade. In addition, the relationship between prosodic stress awareness and CF is corroborated.

Translated title of the contributionDiferencias entre el rendimiento en tareas de conciencia fonológica y conciencia prosódica acentual en escolares con trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)80-89
Number of pages10
JournalRevista de Logopedia, Foniatria y Audiologia
Volume42
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Developmental language disorder
  • Phonological awareness
  • Prosodic stress awareness

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