TEL y M.T. Aguado (1) (original) (raw)

Two lists of nonwords are proposed to evaluate the phonological working memory for diagnostic of specific language impairment. One list is made up of nonwords whose syllables are frequent and the other of nonwords whose syllables are not frequent. These lists are accompanied by instructions for their performance and by provisional norms carried out on 5-and 7-year-old children. On one hand, the importance of the task of nonword repetition for diagnostic of specific language impairment is based on works which reliably prove that it is the best tool to measure the capacity of phonological store of working memory, because it is necessary to implement tasks like discriminating the acoustic signal, converting the acoustic-phonetic sequence into phonemes, encoding acoustic information into a phonological representation, keeping the order of this representation in working memory, and planning and implementing the response; and these psycholinguistic activities must be carried out without activating top-down processes from the meaning. On the other hand, it seems proved that the origin of specific language impairment lies in the limitation of capacity of phonological store which affects, firstly, vocabulary acquisition, and, secondly, morphosyntax development.

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