Nonword repetition tasks

[MCKEAN CRISTINA]

Hi Susanne again,
I probably should have mentioned the children do this for 40 non-words quite happily ranging from 1 - 4 syllables in  length
Cristina

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From: info-childes at googlegroups.com on behalf of MCKEAN CRISTINA
Sent: Wed 23/01/2008 17:50
To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Nonword repetition tasks




Dear Susanne,
I am currently collecting non-word repetition data with children aged from 3 - 6 years. Of the 52 children only one has refused to cooperate.
I simply reward the children with an age appropriate fun toy after  5 non words(the number represented by tokens which I touch). (Cars down ramps, trains down tracks, stickers on a sticker, Pop up Pirate all work). I started out with a little alien puppet but found the children were distracted by this and just got the idea of saying funny words without any toys! My group of children includes kids with language impairment too and all cooperated.

Shula Chiat has worked with very young children ( I think 3 years but may be younger) and Stephanie Stokes has completed a non-word repetition task 2 year olds. I would recommend you look at their work.
Cristina McKean

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From: info-childes at googlegroups.com on behalf of Brian MacWhinney
Sent: Wed 23/01/2008 16:58
To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Nonword repetition tasks




Dear Susanne,
     There is an adult experimental literature demonstrating the
importance of
syllable length, syllable structure, list length, phonemic content,
and phonotactic regularity
in nonword repetition.  There are also findings about list structure
and so on.
People who have done some of this include Baddeley, Gathercole, Pinker,
Prasada, MacWhinney, Gupta, Cowan and so on.  However, in the adult
literature, it is the stimuli, not the tasks that is at issue.  You
may be right that
for children one also has to have a nice task, such as having them
repeat the
silly words that the alligator puppet says or something like that.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Jan 23, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Susanne Vogt wrote:

>
> Dear Info-CHILDES,
>
> recently I was concerned with the topic of nonword repetition.
> Although
> research in the area of nonword repetition has received increased
> attention
> over the last years clear guidelines on how "good" nonwords should be
> constructed are few in number.
> I wonder if anybody could give some guidelines or ideas (or relevant
> literature) concerning the development of such a task for (German)
> preschool
> children (4 years of age).
>
> Any feedback on experiences related to nonword repetition tasks with
> 3- to
> 5-year olds would also be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot for any comments on the topic,
> Susanne
>
>
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