The effect of an unfamiliar accent on typically developing children’s comprehension of spoken sentences

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dc.contributor.authorAllen, Éadaoin
dc.contributor.authorO'Leary, Deirdre
dc.contributor.authorGibbon, Fiona E.
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-02T13:03:49Z
dc.date.available2020-09-02T13:03:49Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.updated2018-08-15T10:57:12Z
dc.description.abstractObjective: To investigate whether children’s performance on a sentence comprehension task is affected when sentences are spoken in an unfamiliar accent. Method: Participants were 47 typically developing children living in southern Ireland consisting of a younger group (n = 24) of 4-year-olds and an older group (n = 23) of 6-year-olds. The children completed a sentence comprehension task in which half the instructions were spoken in a familiar accent and half in an unfamiliar accent. Sentences were matched for length and syntactic complexity. Main results: The younger group’s scores were significantly lower when sentences were presented in the unfamiliar accent, but there was no accent effect on comprehension for children in the older group. Conclusions: For young children living in southern Ireland, an unfamiliar accent could reduce their comprehension of spoken language.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationAllen, E., O' Leary, D. and Gibbon, F. E. (2015) 'The Effect of an Unfamiliar Accent on Typically Developing Children's Comprehension of Spoken Sentences', Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, 22, pp. 29-45.en
dc.identifier.endpage45en
dc.identifier.issn0791-5985
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of of Clinical Speech and Language Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage29en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10450
dc.identifier.volume22en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIrish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT); J&R Press Ltd.en
dc.relation.urihttps://www.jr-press.co.uk/journal-irish-association-speech-language-therapists.html
dc.rights© 2015en
dc.subjectAccenten
dc.subjectReceptive languageen
dc.subjectSentence comprehensionen
dc.subjectChildrenen
dc.subjectToken Testen
dc.titleThe effect of an unfamiliar accent on typically developing children’s comprehension of spoken sentencesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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