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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2020.12.1.051

Effects of phonological awareness and phonological processing on language skills in 4- to 6-year old children with and without language delay  

Kim, Shinyoung (Department of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University)
Son, Jinkyeong (Department of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University)
Yim, Dongsun (Department of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.12, no.1, 2020 , pp. 51-63 More about this Journal
Abstract
Phonological awareness is a metalinguistic awareness ability of phonology and is known to predict language skills, such as reading and vocabulary skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between phonological awareness, phonological processing, and language skills in 4- to 6-years-old typically developing (TD) children and children with language delay (LD). A total of 32 children (TD=18, LD=15) participated in this study. They performed a phonological awareness task consisting of counting, deletion, and discrimination at syllable level. Nonword Repetition, Digit Backward, Receptive & Expressive Vocabulary Test, and Grammaticality Judgment Task were performed to analyze the correlation between phonological awareness, phonological processing, and language ability. A multiple stepwise regression analysis was performed to examine the phonological awareness subtasks that predict language ability. In the TD group, the syllable categorization task significantly predicted the receptive vocabulary and the performance of the Grammaticality Judgment Task. The LD group showed that the syllable counting task significantly predicted the receptive vocabulary, the expressive vocabulary, and the performance of the Grammaticality Judgment Task. The results showed that the phonological awareness performance was significantly different between the two groups. Further, correlation analysis and regression analysis showed different results for each group. The result of the phonological awareness performance predicted the language ability of each group significantly, suggesting the importance of the meta-linguistic awareness ability of phonology.
Keywords
phonological awareness; phonological processing; metalinguistic awareness; vocabulary skills; grammaticality judgment;
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