Infant speech perception in noise and early childhood measures of syntax and attention abilities
Infant speech perception in noise and early childhood measures of syntax and attention abilities
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2008
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Blayney, Elizabeth Sarah Sanford
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Newman, Rochelle
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Childhood outcomes in syntactic and attention abilities were measured for 23 children (mean age = 5:3) who, as infants, had either succeeded or failed at identifying their name in the presence of multitalker background noise. Children from the unsuccessful infant group were rated by parents as having significantly more difficulty with attention-related behaviors than children from the successful infant group. The two groups did not perform significantly differently on standardized measures of morphosyntactic ability, but the unsuccessful group was found to have significantly lower MLUs on narrative language samples than the successful group.