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Word stress production in three‐year‐old children at risk of dyslexia
Author(s) -
De Bree Elise,
Wijnen Frank,
Zonneveld Wim
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of research in reading
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9817
pISSN - 0141-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2006.00310.x
Subject(s) - psychology , dyslexia , stress (linguistics) , phonological awareness , developmental psychology , phonology , imitation , language development , phonological development , reading (process) , word (group theory) , language acquisition , control (management) , cognitive psychology , linguistics , audiology , literacy , medicine , artificial intelligence , social psychology , mathematics education , computer science , pedagogy , philosophy
We investigated Dutch word stress acquisition in 3‐year‐old children at risk of dyslexia (children with at least one parent or older sibling with reading difficulties) and normally developing children, in order to shed light on language acquisition delays in children at risk of dyslexia, as well as to investigate further phonological deficits in dyslexia. The children had to repeat non‐words with stress patterns varying in regularity. Both the at‐risk and control children performed better on imitation of regular stress targets and worse on irregular and prohibited stress patterns. However, the at‐risk children showed more difficulty imitating irregular and prohibited patterns, and had lower percentages phonemes correct than the control group. The results can be interpreted as a delay in word stress acquisition in the at‐risk group. The findings thus point towards a phonological deficit early in language development.