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Fine-grained auditory discrimination and performance on tests of receptive vocabulary and receptive language

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This research investigated the relation between children’s performance on two measures of receptive language and children’s auditory discrimination of consonant-vowel sounds having frequency and temporal acoustic differences. The measures of fine-grained auditory discrimination produced significant multiple regression coefficients against both receptive vocabulary (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised) and receptive language (Token Test for Children) scores. Validation analyses conducted by predicting receptive vocabulary and language scores for a new sample of children and relating them to the actual scores led to significant outcomes. It was concluded that fine-grained auditory discrimination is particularly important in the relatively early stages of language learning.

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  1. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

    Lois L. Elliott, Michael A. Hammer & Margo E. Scholl

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The cooperation of the participating children, teachers, principals, and school district administrators is gratefully acknowledged. This research was supported, in part, by a grant from NINCDS (NIH).

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Elliott, L.L., Hammer, M.A. & Scholl, M.E. Fine-grained auditory discrimination and performance on tests of receptive vocabulary and receptive language. Annals of Dyslexia 40, 170–179 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02648147

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