Séminaire LPNC - Aude NOIRAY

In the first years of life, most typically developing children learn to speak their native language effortlessly without explicit instruction but daily experience with their native language. Yet, spoken language fluency is a complex skill involving the cooperation of various language-related abilities (e.g., perception, lexicon, phonology, speech motor control…) which develop in a seemingly parallel fashion. While those competences have been well studied individually in the last decades their collaborative contribution to spoken language fluency is not yet well understood.
 In this talk, I will first present research addressing the development of coarticulation, an essential feature for the development of spoken and reading fluency that may go awry in children with atypical language development trajectories. Coarticulation has most often been investigated in relation to speech motor control development. I will show that while the maturation of the speech motor system is crucial to spoken language fluency, the concurrent development of other language-related skills – for instance vocabulary and phonological awareness must also be considered to explain children’s individual trajectories. I will further discuss preliminary results showing that reading acquisition – initiated years after children have started to speak – interacts with speech motor organization for casual speech.
 
 Related readings:
 Noiray, A., Popescu (2021). Learning to read interacts with children’s spoken language fluency. Journal of Language, Learning and Development, 1-21.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15475441.2021.1941032?src=
 Noiray, A., Popescu, A., Killmer, H., Rubertus, E., Krüger, S., & Hintermeier, L. (2019). Spoken language development and the challenge of skill integration. Frontiers in Psychology, Language Sciences. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02777/full
 Noiray, A., Wieling, M., Abakarova, D., Rubertus,E., & Tiede, M. (2019). Back from the future: nonlinear anticipation in adults and children’s speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(8S), 3033-3054. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-CSMC7