Abstract
In this study, the phonological whole-word measure Phonological Mean Length of Utterance was applied to identify stages in the phonological acquisition of Dutch children. Ninety spontaneous speech samples of 47 typically developing Dutch children from a previous study were examined. Samples were distributed across nine age groups ranging between 1;3–4;0 years. Across all age groups, PMLU of word productions increased significantly with the largest increase found below age 2;0 years. PMLU of the target words showed no significant increase across age groups. Outcomes suggest that the phonological whole-word measure PMLU can be further developed for clinical purposes in Dutch-speaking children. In the future, this measure could become relevant for the diagnosis and evaluation of therapy on the basis of spontaneous language.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1149-1164 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Dec 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to prof. dr. Toni Rietveld for his contribution with the statistical analyses. This article is based on a study performed by the second author as her master thesis at the Department of Speech and Language Pathology of the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Publisher Copyright:
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Funding
The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to prof. dr. Toni Rietveld for his contribution with the statistical analyses. This article is based on a study performed by the second author as her master thesis at the Department of Speech and Language Pathology of the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Keywords
- Dutch
- phonological acquisition
- phonological mean length of utterance
- Whole-word measure