TY - JOUR

T1 - The children's test of nonword repetition: a test of phonological working memory.

AU - Gathercole, S. E. ;

AU - Willis, C. S. ;

AU - Baddeley, A. D.

AU - Emslie, H.

PY - 1994

Y1 - 1994

N2 - This article presents findings from the Children's Test of Nonword Repetition (CNRep). Normative data based on its administration to over 600 children aged between four and nine years are reported. Close developmental links are established between CNRep scores and vocabulary, reading, and comprehensive skills in children during the early school years. The links between nonword repetition and language skills are shown to be consistently higher and more specific than those obtained between language skills and another simple verbal task with a significant phonological memory component, auditory digit span. The psychological mechanisms underpinning these distinctive developmental relationships between nonword repetition and language development are considered.

AB - This article presents findings from the Children's Test of Nonword Repetition (CNRep). Normative data based on its administration to over 600 children aged between four and nine years are reported. Close developmental links are established between CNRep scores and vocabulary, reading, and comprehensive skills in children during the early school years. The links between nonword repetition and language skills are shown to be consistently higher and more specific than those obtained between language skills and another simple verbal task with a significant phonological memory component, auditory digit span. The psychological mechanisms underpinning these distinctive developmental relationships between nonword repetition and language development are considered.

U2 - 10.1080/09658219408258940

DO - 10.1080/09658219408258940

M3 - Journal article

VL - 2

SP - 103

EP - 129

JO - Memory

JF - Memory

SN - 0965-8211

IS - 2

ER -