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Sensitivity to rhythmic parameters in dyslexic children: a comparison of Hungarian and English |
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| Authors: | Zsuzsanna Surányi Valéria Csépe Ulla Richardson Jennifer M. Thomson Ferenc Honbolygó Usha Goswami | ||
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Cognitive Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Institute of Psychology, E?tv?s Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, H-1064, Budapest, Hungary 2. Group of Developmental Psychophysiology, Research Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szondi utca 83-85, 1068, Budapest, Hungary 3. P.O. Box 398, 1394, Budapest, Hungary 4. Department of Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland 5. Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
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| Abstract: | It has been proposed that sensitivity to the parameters underlying speech rhythm may be important in setting up well-specified phonological representations in the mental lexicon. However, different acoustic parameters may contribute differentially to rhythm and stress in different languages. Here we contrast sensitivity to one such cue, amplitude envelope onset (rise time), in dyslexic and normally-developing children in two languages, Hungarian and English, ages from 7 to 11. Dyslexic and control children received phonological tasks, reading and spelling tasks and auditory processing tasks. While sensitivity to rise time was related to phonological representation in both languages, clear differences were found between languages. It is suggested that these differences may reflect differential language-specific weighting of different acoustic cues to rhythm and stress.
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| Keywords: | Speech rhythm Phonology Development Dyslexia | ||
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