Abstract
The performance of 28 children selected on the basis of poor intelligibility of oral language expression was compared with the performance of two groups of normally speaking children on ability to imitate isolated phonemes and on 6 additional tasks. The groups showed no significant differences in ability to imitate isolated phonemes. The language impaired group showed inferior performance on the 6 tasks, which involved repetition and blending of sequences of phonemes, words, and nonwords, and the making of same-different judgments of phonemes embedded in pairs of nonsense syllables. A qualitative difference in performance involving ability to perceive and utilize linguistic structural information was Shown.
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