Behavioral Measures to Evaluate Prosodic Skills: A Review of Assessment Tools for Children and Adults

Kalathottukaren, Rose Thomas; Purdy, R. Lyn; McCormick, Suzanne C.; Ballard, Elaine

doi:10.1044/cicsd_42_s_138

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“…To summarize, reliability tended to be highest for the Combined condition, and reliability was somewhat higher for the focus tests than for the phrase tests. Overall, however, these reliability scores compare favorably with those of other batteries of prosody perception ( Kalathottukaren et al , 2015 ).…”

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The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP)

2021

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Prosody can be defined as the rhythm and intonation patterns spanning words, phrases and sentences. Accurate perception of prosody is an important component of many aspects of language processing, such as parsing grammatical structures, recognizing words, and determining where emphasis may be placed. Prosody perception is important for language acquisition and can be impaired in language-related developmental disorders. However, existing assessments of prosodic perception suffer from some shortcomings. These include being unsuitable for use with typically developing adults due to ceiling effects and failing to allow the investigator to distinguish the unique contributions of individual acoustic features such as pitch and temporal cues. Here we present the Multi-Dimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP), a novel tool for the assessment of prosody perception. It consists of two subtests: Linguistic Focus, which measures the ability to hear emphasis or sentential stress, and Phrase Boundaries, which measures the ability to hear where in a compound sentence one phrase ends, and another begins. Perception of individual acoustic dimensions (Pitch and Duration) can be examined separately, and test difficulty can be precisely calibrated by the experimenter because stimuli were created using a continuous voice morph space. We present validation analyses from a sample of 59 individuals and discuss how the battery might be deployed to examine perception of prosody in various populations.

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The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP)

2021

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“…To summarize, reliability tended to be highest for the both condition, and reliability was somewhat higher for the focus tests than for the phrase tests. Overall, however, these reliability scores compare favourably with those of other batteries of prosody perception (Kalathottukaren, Purdy, & Ballard, 2015).…”

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The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP)

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2019

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| Prosody can be defined as the rhythm and intonation patterns spanning words, phrases and sentences. Accurate perception of prosody is an important component of many aspects of language processing, such as parsing grammatical structures, recognizing words, and determining where emphasis may be placed.Prosody perception is important for language acquisition and can be impaired in language-related developmental disorders. However, existing assessments of prosodic perception suffer from some shortcomings. These include being unsuitable for use with typically developing adults due to ceiling effects, or failing to allow the investigator to distinguish the unique contributions of individual acoustic features such as pitch and temporal cues. Here we present the Multi-Dimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP), a novel tool for the assessment of prosody perception. It consists of two subtests --Linguistic Focus, which measures the ability to hear emphasis or sentential stress, and Phrase Boundaries, which measures the ability to hear where in a compound sentence one phrase ends, and another begins.Perception of individual acoustic dimensions (Pitch and Time) can be examined separately, and test difficulty can be precisely calibrated by the the experimenter because stimuli were created using a continuous voice morph space. We present validation analyses from a sample of 57 individuals and discuss how the battery might be deployed to examine perception of prosody in various populations.

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“…Six receptive subtests of the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C) (Wells et al, 2004) and the Child Paralanguage subtest of the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2 (DANVA 2) (Nowicki and Duke, 1994) were used to evaluate receptive prosody in children. Test-retest reliability and internal consistency information for these assessments are provided in Kalathottukaren et al (2015a). Receptive subtests of PEPS-C were chosen, as it has options to assess grammatical (Turn-End and Chunking Reception), emotional (Affect Reception), and pragmatic (Contrastive Stress Reception) aspects of prosody.…”

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Prosody Perception and Production in Children with Hearing Loss and Age- and Gender-Matched Controls

2017

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Children with hearing loss aged 7-12 yr had significant difficulties in understanding different aspects of prosody and were rated as having more atypical prosody overall than controls. These findings suggest that clinical assessment and speech-language therapy services for children with hearing loss should be expanded to target prosodic difficulties. Future studies should investigate whether musical training is beneficial for improving receptive prosody skills.

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Behavioral Measures to Evaluate Prosodic Skills: A Review of Assessment Tools for Children and Adults

Cited by 12 publications

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The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP)

The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP)

The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP)

Prosody Perception and Production in Children with Hearing Loss and Age- and Gender-Matched Controls

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