Intraword Variability in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children

Article Article scientifique Article Intraword Variability in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children eng 2021-07-16 author Winkler-Kehoe Margaret 0000-0001-6428-6157 Department of Psycholinguistics, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland 587036 Section de psychologie (PSICO) author Cretton Emilie Department of Psycholinguistics, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland 817098 2453-2471 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00558 34121422 1092-4388 http://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00558 Purpose This study examines intraword variability in 40 typically developing French-speaking monolingual and bilingual children, aged 2;6–4;8 (years;months). Specifically, it measures rate of intraword variability and investigates which factors best account for it. They include child-specific ones such as age, expressive vocabulary, gender, bilingual status, and speech sound production ability, and word-specific factors, such as phonological complexity (including number of syllables), phonological neighborhood density (PND), and word frequency. Method A variability test was developed, consisting of 25 words, which differed in terms of phonological complexity, PND, and word frequency. Children produced three exemplars of each word during a single session, and productions of words were coded as variable or not variable. In addition, children were administered an expressive vocabulary test and two tests tapping speech motor ability (oral motor assessment and diadochokinetic test). Speech sound ability was also assessed by measuring percent consonants correct on all words produced by the children during the session. Data were entered into a binomial logistic regression. Results Average intraword variability was 29% across all children. Several factors were found to predict intraword variability including age, gender, bilingual status, speech sound production ability, phonological complexity, and PND. Conclusions Intraword variability was found to be lower in French than what has been reported in English, consistent with phonological differences between French and English. Our findings support those of other investigators in indicating that the factors influencing intraword variability are multiple and reflect sources at various levels in the speech processing system. Dewey 150 108 Section de psychologie 71 false Journal of speech, language, and hearing research 64 7 f55d3a33-0273-4d84-aa00-74755d0f5f6d Article (Published version) Public Kehoe and Cretton 2021.pdf 424465 application/pdf 0a66846067d22d04401cd4019d85c5f797b19532a732dbacc546e1f8064ea7db openAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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Intraword Variability in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children	Journal of speech, language, and hearing research	2021	47	287
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