RT Journal Article
T1 A Spanish Sentence Repetition Task and its relationship with spontaneous language in children aged 30 to 36 months
A1 Bravo, Natalia
A1 Mariscal, Sonia
A1 Casla, Marta
A1 Lázaro López-Villaseñor, Miguel
AB Sentence Repetition Tasks (SRTs) have been convincingly established as a reliable tool for assessing child language development. However, there are important aspects of this task that deserve more attention. For example, few studies have explored their potential role for identifying language disorders in children under4 years of age, as almost all evidence refers to children above this age. There is also scarce evidence regarding the relationship between the results of these tasks andmeasures of spontaneous language. To address this gap, we conducted a study with 24 Typically Developing (TD) monolingual Spanish speakers agedbetween 30 and 36 months. They performed a Spanish Sentence Repetition Task (SSRT), and their language was recorded and analyzed during spontaneous play with their parents. Variables such as Mean Length of Utterance (MLU), an index of lexical diversity (ILD) and the structure of the Noun Phrase wereconsidered. The statistical analyses reflect a positive and significant correlation between the results obtained in the SSRT and both the MLU and Noun Phrase structure. A positive and significant relationship is also obtained between the MLU in repetition and theMLU of spontaneous language. However, no significantcorrelation is found between the ILD with either the SSRT or the other measures of spontaneous language. Based on these results, we interpret that the SSRT e􀀀ectively mirrors the language development of children measured through spontaneous production and is suitable for assessing language skills of Spanishchildren under 4 years old.
PB Frontiers
YR 2024
FD 2024-07-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116246
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116246
LA eng
NO Bravo N, Mariscal S, Casla M and Lazaro M ´ (2024) A Spanish Sentence Repetition Task and its relationship with spontaneous language in children aged 30 to 36 months. Front. Commun. 9:1368035. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1368035
NO Ministerio de Ciencia,  Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 19 abr 2025