The role of metrical stress in comprehension and production in Dutch children at-risk of dyslexia

Petra Van Alphen*, Elise De Bree, Paula Fikkert, Frank Wijnen

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Abstract

The present study compared the role of metrical stress in comprehension and production of three-year-old children with a familial risk of dyslexia with that of normally developing children. A visual fixation task with stress (mis-)matches in bisyllabic words, as well as a non-word repetition task with bisyllabic targets were presented to the control and at-risk children. Results show that the at-risk group is less sensitive to stress mismatches in word recognition than the control group. Correct production of metrical stress patterns did not differ significantly between the groups, but the percentages of phonemes produced correctly were lower of the at-risk than the control group. The findings indicate that processing of metrical stress patterns is not impaired in atrisk children, but that the at-risk group cannot exploit metrical stress in word recognition.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007
Pages737-740
Number of pages4
Volume1
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2007
Event8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007 - Antwerp, Belgium
Duration: 27 Aug 200731 Aug 2007

Conference

Conference8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityAntwerp
Period27/08/0731/08/07

Keywords

  • Metrical stress
  • Nonword repetition
  • Speech
  • Visual fixation

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