Investigation of Turkish Nonword Repetition List for 3-9 Years Children

Gözde Akoğlu, Funda Acarlar

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop the Turkish Nonword Repetition (NWR) List and to assess the verbal working memory performances of typically developing children between 3-9 years. Study group consists of 84 girls and 108 boys with a total of 192 children who are attended to private and state preschool institutions as well as state primary schools in Ankara. NWR List consists of 36 words with a total of 210 phonemes. The results showed that the number of correct phonemes increase with age. Besides, age and the number of one to four syllables and consonant cluster nonwords had averagely positive significant relationship. This research adds to our knowledge of language development as it highlights that NWR processes can be applied at an early age of 3.

Keywords

Working memory, nonword repetition, number of correctly produced phonemes

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