Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia
Reading disability in children with dyslexia has been proposed to reflect impairment in auditory timing perception. We investigated one aspect of timing perception—temporal grouping—as present in prosodic phrase boundaries of natural speech, in age-matched groups of children, ages 6–8 years, with an...
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| author | Geiser, Eveline Cyr, Abigail Gabrieli, John D. E. Kjelgaard, Margaret McCaughin Christodoulou, Joanna |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Geiser, Eveline Cyr, Abigail Gabrieli, John D. E. Kjelgaard, Margaret McCaughin Christodoulou, Joanna |
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| description | Reading disability in children with dyslexia has been proposed to reflect impairment in auditory timing perception. We investigated one aspect of timing perception—temporal grouping—as present in prosodic phrase boundaries of natural speech, in age-matched groups of children, ages 6–8 years, with and without dyslexia. Prosodic phrase boundaries are characterized by temporal grouping of functionally related speech elements and can facilitate syntactic processing of speech. For example, temporary syntactic ambiguities, such as early-closure structures, are processed faster when prosodic phrase boundaries are present. We examined children’s prosodic facilitation by measuring their efficiency of sentence processing for temporary syntactic ambiguities spoken with (facilitating) versus without (neutral) prosodic phrase boundaries. Both groups of children benefited similarly from prosodic facilitation, displaying faster reaction times in facilitating compared to neutral prosody. These findings indicate that the use of prosodic phrase boundaries for speech processing is not impaired in children with dyslexia. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1035172022-09-29T12:56:05Z Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia Geiser, Eveline Cyr, Abigail Gabrieli, John D. E. Kjelgaard, Margaret McCaughin Christodoulou, Joanna Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Geiser, Eveline Kjelgaard, Margaret McCaughin Christodoulou, Joanna Cyr, Abigail Gabrieli, John D. E. Reading disability in children with dyslexia has been proposed to reflect impairment in auditory timing perception. We investigated one aspect of timing perception—temporal grouping—as present in prosodic phrase boundaries of natural speech, in age-matched groups of children, ages 6–8 years, with and without dyslexia. Prosodic phrase boundaries are characterized by temporal grouping of functionally related speech elements and can facilitate syntactic processing of speech. For example, temporary syntactic ambiguities, such as early-closure structures, are processed faster when prosodic phrase boundaries are present. We examined children’s prosodic facilitation by measuring their efficiency of sentence processing for temporary syntactic ambiguities spoken with (facilitating) versus without (neutral) prosodic phrase boundaries. Both groups of children benefited similarly from prosodic facilitation, displaying faster reaction times in facilitating compared to neutral prosody. These findings indicate that the use of prosodic phrase boundaries for speech processing is not impaired in children with dyslexia. Ellison Medical Foundation Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF; PBZHP1-123304) McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT 2016-07-01T21:28:08Z 2016-07-01T21:28:08Z 2013-12 2013-06 2016-05-23T12:17:52Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0736-9387 1934-7243 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103517 Geiser, Eveline, Margaret Kjelgaard, Joanna A. Christodoulou, Abigail Cyr, and John D. E. Gabrieli. “Auditory Temporal Structure Processing in Dyslexia: Processing of Prosodic Phrase Boundaries Is Not Impaired in Children with Dyslexia.” Ann. of Dyslexia 64, no. 1 (December 14, 2013): 77–90. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7796-7872 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-4791 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1158-5692 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11881-013-0087-7 Annals of Dyslexia Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The International Dyslexia Association application/pdf Springer US Springer US |
| spellingShingle | Geiser, Eveline Cyr, Abigail Gabrieli, John D. E. Kjelgaard, Margaret McCaughin Christodoulou, Joanna Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia |
| title | Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia |
| title_full | Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia |
| title_fullStr | Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia |
| title_short | Auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia: processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia |
| title_sort | auditory temporal structure processing in dyslexia processing of prosodic phrase boundaries is not impaired in children with dyslexia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103517 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7796-7872 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-4791 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1158-5692 |
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