Journal article
Auditory sequence analysis and phonological skill
Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, Vol.279(1746), pp.4496-4504
11/07/2012
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1817
PMCID: PMC3479813
PMID: 22951739
Abstract
This work tests the relationship between auditory and phonological skill in a non-selected cohort of 238 school students (age 11) with the specific hypothesis that sound-sequence analysis would be more relevant to phonological skill than the analysis of basic, single sounds. Auditory processing was assessed across the domains of pitch, time and timbre; a combination of six standard tests of literacy and language ability was used to assess phonological skill. A significant correlation between general auditory and phonological skill was demonstrated, plus a significant, specific correlation between measures of phonological skill and the auditory analysis of short sequences in pitch and time. The data support a limited but significant link between auditory and phonological ability with a specific role for sound-sequence analysis, and provide a possible new focus for auditory training strategies to aid language development in early adolescence.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Auditory sequence analysis and phonological skill
- Creators
- Manon Grube - Newcastle UniversitySukhbinder Kumar - Newcastle UniversityFreya E. Cooper - Newcastle UniversityStuart Turton - Newcastle UniversityTimothy D. Griffiths - Newcastle University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, Vol.279(1746), pp.4496-4504
- DOI
- 10.1098/rspb.2012.1817
- PMID
- 22951739
- PMCID
- PMC3479813
- NLM abbreviation
- Proc Biol Sci
- ISSN
- 0962-8452
- eISSN
- 1471-2954
- Publisher
- Royal Soc London
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- Wellcome Trust; European Commission
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/07/2012
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Neurosurgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984303905402771
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