Performance of children on the Turkish Nonword Repetition Test: Effect of word similarity, word length, and scoring

Topbas S., Kacar-Kutukcu D., Kopkalli-Yavuz H.

CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS, vol.28, no.7-8, pp.602-616, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 28 Issue: 7-8
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Doi Number: 10.3109/02699206.2014.927003
  • Journal Name: CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.602-616
  • Keywords: Assessment, diagnostic accuracy, nonword repetition, SLI, Turkish, typical children, SHORT-TERM-MEMORY, TYPICALLY DEVELOPING-CHILDREN, LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT SLI, PHONOTACTIC PROBABILITY, WORKING-MEMORY, DIAGNOSTIC-ACCURACY, PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY, CLINICAL MARKERS, VOCABULARY SIZE, WORDLIKENESS
  • Anadolu University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This study aims to report the preliminary results of the development of the Turkish Nonword Repetition Test and to contribute to the clinical accuracy of the test by comparing the performance of children with specific language impairment with that of language-level matched and age-matched typically developing children on a nonword repetition (NWR) test developed for Turkish. To determine the effect of word similarity and word length, the Turkish Nonword Repetition Test is composed of language-like and language-unlike items. To determine the effect of scoring, the performances of children were scored as correct/incorrect for a whole word, for only the consonants, and for only the vowels. The findings suggest that the test is a reliable tool to differentiate Turkish-speaking children with SLI from typically developing children.