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Commentary on Keynote

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2006

James Montgomery  and
Julia Evans
James Montgomery
Affiliation:
Ohio University
Julia Evans
Affiliation:
San Diego State University
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In her Keynote, Gathercole (2006) provides a comprehensive review regarding the nature of the nonword repetition (NWR) task and a compelling argument for the utility of the task as a robust index of children's phonological short-term storage capacity. She further argues that temporary phonological storage acts as a primitive learning mechanism that plays an instrumental role in the lexical learning of young children, including children with specific language impairment (SLI). In this Commentary, we focus our remarks on two related themes concerning the relation of NWR and SLI: (a) performance on NWR tasks provides a window into these children's more general cognitive (dis)abilities and (b) the robustness of NWR as a predictor of these children's lexical knowledge and learning abilities.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 573 - 577
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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