Bilingual children acquiring Russian and German in Vienna: nonword repetition correlates with stronger but not with weaker language; [Zweisprachige Kinder, die in Wien Russisch und Deutsch erwerben: Wiederholung von Pseudowörtern korreliert mit stärkerer, aber nicht mit schwächerer Sprache]

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作者：
Eisenwort B. [1 ,3 ]
Tilis M. [1 ,3 ]
Schmid C. [1 ,3 ,4 ]
Diendorfer-Radner G. [2 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, Vienna
[2] Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Division of Phoniatrics-Logopedics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna
[3] Comprehensive Center of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna
[4] Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
来源：
neuropsychiatrie | 2023年 / 37卷 / 3期
关键词：
Bilingual; Language development; Language exposure; Nonword repetition;
D O I：
10.1007/s40211-023-00456-1
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摘要：
Purpose: Nonword repetition tests (NWRT) can be useful tools together with other assessment procedures for diagnosing a developmental learning disorder in bilingual children. Concerning typically developing children, however, the link between NWRT performance and language development is still unclear. The present study contributes to this discussion by investigating the link between language-dependent NWRT performance, language development, and language exposure. Methods: A total of 20 simultaneously bilingual Russian–German children, aged 4–6 years, were tested with “The Russian language proficiency test for multilingual children (SRUK)” and “Patholinguistische Diagnostik bei Sprachentwicklungsstörungen (PDSS)” as well as language-specific nonwords for Russian and German. Results: Most children scored within the mean range in SRUK. In PDSS they scored two standard deviations below the mean range in most of the subtests. NWRT in Russian significantly correlated with the NWRT in German and also positively correlated with both comprehension and production in Russian. In contrast, the German NWRT did not correlate with comprehension or with production in German. Moreover, the correlation between the German NWRT and the comprehension of grammatical structures in Russian was significant, and the correlations between the German NWRT and the two other Russian language development tests just failed to reach significance. Conclusion: High scores in both the Russian and the German NWRT offer evidence that the ability to repeat language-specific nonwords does not differ depending on language exposure. The aim to distinguish between typical and atypical language development based on NWRT can be reached only when NWRT and all possible influencing factors in typically developed children are analyzed. © 2023, The Author(s).
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