ArticleCognition2025
Speech categorization consistency is associated with language and reading abilities in school-age children: Implications for language and reading disorders.
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- Phonetic stability predicts individual differences in acoustic-phonetic cue weighting.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Structural connectivity of auditory-linguistic brain networks predicts success in speech categorization and listening in noise.Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Speech Categorization Consistency Predicts Language and Reading Abilities in Korean School-Age Children.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
- Speech perception consistency facilitates initial lexical activation, but not speech perception flexibility.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Measuring age-related differences in phonetic gradiency with the visual analogue scale and eye tracking.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026Article
- Phonological processing, oral language abilities, and reading comprehension in children with cochlear implants.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Changes in the Structure of Speech Categorization Across School Age Years: Children Become More Gradient and More Consistent.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Consistency in phonetic categorization predicts successful speech-in-noise perception.JASA express letters · 2025Article
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Abstract
Speech perception is fundamental to language and reading abilities. While these skills are correlated, most studies examining the role of speech perception on outcomes do not test both concurrently. Moreover, traditional forced-choice tasks have limitations in accurately indexing these relationships. This study used a visual analog scaling task-a continuous measure of speech categorization-to examine speech categorization alongside conventional language and reading assessments in a large sample of children (n = 237), including those with language and/or reading disabilities. Children with poorer language/reading exhibited lower trial-by-trial categorization consistency, but no differences in the gradiency of the mean function. Group analyses further linked differences in categorization consistency to language/reading disabilities, with reading ability being linked particularly to the processing of vowels. Critically, categorization consistency was uniquely linked to language/reading ability, even when controlling for the mediating effect of phonological processing. These findings suggest that the consistency of perceptual processes, rather than the quality of the representations, is the critical property of speech perception that is associated with broader language and reading function.
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