Familiarity of speaker accent on Irish children’s performance on a sentence comprehension task
| dc.contributor.author | O'Connor, Claire | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gibbon, Fiona E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-02T14:45:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-02T14:45:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-09-02T14:41:19Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Objectives: This study sought to determine whether children’s performance on a sentence comprehension task is affected when sentences are spoken in an unfamiliar native accent. Method: Fifty typically developing school-aged children living in Southern Ireland (Cork) participated; 25 in a younger group (mean 7;08 years) and 25 in an older group (mean 9;09 years). The children completed a computer-based comprehension task during which 20 sentences were spoken in a Cork accent (familiar) and 20 were in a Tyrone accent (unfamiliar). The sentences were matched for syllable length and syntactic complexity. Main results: The younger children made significantly more errors when sentences were spoken in an unfamiliar accent. The older children made a similar number of incorrect responses to both familiar and unfamiliar accents. Conclusion: Younger children’s performance on comprehension tasks may be reduced when sentences are spoken in an unfamiliar accent. Possible explanations and the clinical implications are discussed. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | O'Connor, C. and Gibbon, F. E. (2011) 'Familiarity of speaker accent on Irish children's performance on a sentence comprehension task', Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, 18, pp. 1-17. | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 17 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0791-5985 | |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/10452 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 18 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT); J&R Press Ltd. | en |
| dc.relation.uri | https://www.jr-press.co.uk/journal-volume-18.html | |
| dc.rights | © 2011 | en |
| dc.subject | Accent | en |
| dc.subject | Receptive language | en |
| dc.subject | Sentence comprehension | en |
| dc.subject | Children | en |
| dc.title | Familiarity of speaker accent on Irish children’s performance on a sentence comprehension task | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
