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Eight typically developing 20-24 month old children participated in a study exploring relationships between performance on nonword repetition tasks (NWRT) and spontaneous speech. Children participated in three tasks: free play, real word repetition, and nonword repetition. Phonetic inventories were determined for each participant in the repetition tasks and spontaneous speech condition. A whole word accuracy measure, Proportion of Whole-Word Proximity (PWP), was also calculated for each participant under each condition. Sound use in spontaneous speech and sound use in repetition tasks were compared. Children produced words in spontaneous speech and words in the real word repetition task more accurately than nonwords. Results indicate that although articulation ability is an important component of nonword repetition, it does not account for all of the variability in nonword repetition in very young children. |
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