|
KMID : 1022420110030040095
|
|
Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2011 Volume.3 No. 4 p.95 ~ p.102
|
|
|
Phonological Discrimination Ability and Phonological Working Memory of Typically Developing Children and Children with Specific Language Impairments
|
|
Paik Kyung-A
Hwang Bo-Myung
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of the phonological discrimination ability and phonological working memory of 10 typically developing children aged 4, and 10 other children with Specific Language Impairments whose language age is similar. In orders to compare their phonological discrimination ability among phonological awareness, discrimination tasks were conducted at the syllable and phoneme levels. Also, in order to compare their phonological working memory, the subjects repeated nonsense syllables. The research results may be summarized as follows: First, the children with Specific Language Impairments demonstrated a lower performance than the typically developing children in phonological discrimination ability at both syllable and phoneme levels, and the difference between the groups was statistically significant. Second, the children with Specific Language Impairments exhibited a lower phonological working memory performance in all syllables compared with normal children. Although there was no significant difference in 2 and 3 syllables, a significant difference appeared as the length of the syllables became longer from 4 to 6 syllables. It is deemed necessary to conduct research into qualitative and quantitative differences through an formal assessment of the phonological awareness and phonological working memory of children with Specific Language Impairments.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
phonological discrimination ability, phonological working memory, Specific Language Impairments
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|