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How do bilingual dyslexic and typically developing children perform in nonword repetition? Evidence from a study on Italian L2 children
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Vender, Maria Delfitto, Denis Melloni, Chiara |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Description | Nonword repetition is typically impaired in dyslexia. Conversely, native-like performance is early achieved by bilingual children whose second language has a simple phonotactic system, like Italian. Our study aimed at comparing the performance of monolingual and bilingual children with and without dyslexia in a nonword repetition task modeled after Italian. We assessed nonword repetition in 111 school-aged children: 24 Italian L2 bilingual dyslexics, 24 Italian monolingual dyslexics, 30 Italian L2 bilingual controls and 33 Italian monolingual controls. We administered an original task composed of 40 nonwords ranging from two to five syllables; the complexity of the syllables was also manipulated. Results showed that both groups of dyslexics underperformed controls at each syllable length. No differences were found between monolingual and bilingual controls. Conversely, bilingual dyslexics underperformed monolingual dyslexics only with four-syllable nonwords. The possible use of nonword repetition tasks to assist in the identification of dyslexia in bilingual children is also discussed. |
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| Ending Page | 896 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| Starting Page | 884 |
| ISSN | 13667289 |
| e-ISSN | 14691841 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1366728919000828 |
| Journal | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 23 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2020-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Language and Cognition Special Education Developmental Dyslexia Nonword Repetition Bilingualism and Dyslexia Interaction Identification of Dyslexia Identification of Dyslexia in Bilingualism |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Education Linguistics and Language |
