Differences between diadochokinesis rates in children across three European languages
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Diepeveen, Sanne; Knežević, Dora; Maassen, Ben
- Source
- Subject
- child speech
diadochokinesis
speech-motor control
language differences
- Language
- English
One of the few objective assessments of motor speech performance is diadochokinesis (DDK). DDK is a task that involves the repetition of syllables composed of a consonant and a vowel as quickly as possible in a clear manner. There is no uniform method of conducting the DDK or measuring the rate of the sequence(s) which leads to the large variability of norm data and makes it difficult to compare the rates between different languages. The goal of this study is to analyze DDK data collected from Croatian, Dutch, and German-speaking children, applying the same protocol.