Abstract
Late talkers are a heterogeneous group of children who experience delayed language development in the absence of other known causes. Late talkers show delays in expressive phonological development, but less is known about their receptive phonological development. In the current study, U.S. monolingual English-speaking typical talkers (TTs) (n = 23, mean age = 26.27 months, 57% male; 78.3% White) and late talkers (n = 22, mean age = 24.57 months, 59% male, 72.7% White) completed a Looking-While-Listening task to assess their sensitivity to mispronunciations. Results revealed that late talkers and TTs looked to the referent of a word for a shorter duration when it was mispronounced than when it was correctly pronounced, suggesting they were sensitive to mispronunciations. However, there were no significant differences between the two groups in their sensitivity to mispronunciations.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 771-792 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Infancy |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1 2023 |
Funding
This study was supported by a National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) fellowship (F31DC017631), a scholarship from the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders and a Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, each awarded to P.C., and a NIDCD grant awarded to A.W. (R21DC018357). We would like to thank the families who took the time to participate in this work. The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the funding sources for this study.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Developmental and Educational Psychology