Woordklemtoonproductie van kinderen met (een risico op) dyslexie. (Dutch/Flemish)

This article reports on research aimed at gaining further insight into the language development of Dutch children with (a familial risk of) dyslexia. Its focus is these children's word stress competence, a prosodic phonological skill from an area underinvestigated in dyslexia research. In a non-word repetition task, both Dutch at-risk and dyslexic children showed more difficulties in stress production than age-matched control groups, especially with (highly) irregular and prohibited stress patterns of the language. Furthermore, the atrisk and dyslexic children reached lower percentages phonemes correct. These findings can be framed in the phonological deficit hypothesis of dyslexia. They also underscore the need to study the acquisition of language-specific phonological regularities that extend beyond the segmental level to gain more insight into this phonological deficit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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