Phonetic-phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from Brazil’s capital city
ABSTRACT. Given the sociodemographic diversity in Brazil, it is fundamental to understand the speech performance of a sample from the Brazilian capital. The repetition task can assess phonological and motor-phonetic planning. Previous studies found phonological-phonetic performance of speakers to be...
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| description | ABSTRACT. Given the sociodemographic diversity in Brazil, it is fundamental to understand the speech performance of a sample from the Brazilian capital. The repetition task can assess phonological and motor-phonetic planning. Previous studies found phonological-phonetic performance of speakers to be associated with education, age, and other demographic factors. Objectives: To compare the phonetic-phonological performance for speech of younger and aged adults in the capital of Brazil, Federal District (FD); to compare FD performance against national normative means based on São Paulo; to determine the association of phonetic-phonological agility with sociodemographic, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric variables for the sample. Methods: Cross-sectional study. A total of 60 volunteers from the FD, comprising 30 older adults and 30 younger ones, were stratified by education into two subgroups: 2‒7 years and ≥8 years of education. Data on age, educational level, and socioeconomic status were collected. The Verbal Agility subtest of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination was applied to assess phonetic-phonological performance. Results: No statistically significant difference in performance for verbal agility was found between aged and younger adults from the FD. There was a statistically significant difference in the phonetic-phonological performance of the FD sample compared with the Brazilian normative mean values. Cognitive and socioeconomic variables were associated with verbal agility. Conclusions: In the capital of Brazil, economic status, age, education, and cognitive variables were associated with verbal agility performance, despite there being no difference in phonetic-phonological performance between younger and aged adult groups. Regional differences in phonetic-phonological performance were also evident. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dac8d5a59c514d49ba4c395d233887552022-12-22T04:16:05ZengAssociação Neurologia Cognitiva e do ComportamentoDementia & Neuropsychologia1980-57642020-09-0114330831410.1590/1980-57642020dn14-030012Phonetic-phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from Brazil’s capital cityTuany Aquino Nogueirahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0258-6944Liara Dias da Silvahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6916-0112Maysa Luchesi Cerahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0956-6874ABSTRACT. Given the sociodemographic diversity in Brazil, it is fundamental to understand the speech performance of a sample from the Brazilian capital. The repetition task can assess phonological and motor-phonetic planning. Previous studies found phonological-phonetic performance of speakers to be associated with education, age, and other demographic factors. Objectives: To compare the phonetic-phonological performance for speech of younger and aged adults in the capital of Brazil, Federal District (FD); to compare FD performance against national normative means based on São Paulo; to determine the association of phonetic-phonological agility with sociodemographic, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric variables for the sample. Methods: Cross-sectional study. A total of 60 volunteers from the FD, comprising 30 older adults and 30 younger ones, were stratified by education into two subgroups: 2‒7 years and ≥8 years of education. Data on age, educational level, and socioeconomic status were collected. The Verbal Agility subtest of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination was applied to assess phonetic-phonological performance. Results: No statistically significant difference in performance for verbal agility was found between aged and younger adults from the FD. There was a statistically significant difference in the phonetic-phonological performance of the FD sample compared with the Brazilian normative mean values. Cognitive and socioeconomic variables were associated with verbal agility. Conclusions: In the capital of Brazil, economic status, age, education, and cognitive variables were associated with verbal agility performance, despite there being no difference in phonetic-phonological performance between younger and aged adult groups. Regional differences in phonetic-phonological performance were also evident.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642020000300308&tlng=enaginglanguagespeechphoneticsagedhealth of the elderly |
| spellingShingle | Tuany Aquino Nogueira Liara Dias da Silva Maysa Luchesi Cera Phonetic-phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from Brazil’s capital city Dementia & Neuropsychologia aging language speech phonetics aged health of the elderly |
| title | Phonetic-phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from Brazil’s capital city |
| title_full | Phonetic-phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from Brazil’s capital city |
| title_fullStr | Phonetic-phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from Brazil’s capital city |
| title_full_unstemmed | Phonetic-phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from Brazil’s capital city |
| title_short | Phonetic-phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from Brazil’s capital city |
| title_sort | phonetic phonological performance of typical younger and aged adults from brazil s capital city |
| topic | aging language speech phonetics aged health of the elderly |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642020000300308&tlng=en |
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