Prosodic abilities in Spanish and English children with Williams syndrome. A cross-linguistic study

Martínez Castilla, PastoraStojanovik, VesnaSetter, JaneSotillo, María2025-10-272025-10-272012-01-01Martínez-Castilla, P., Stojanovik, V., Setter, J., y Sotillo, M. (2012). Prosodic abilities in Spanish and English children with Williams syndrome: A cross-linguistic study. Applied Psycholinguistics, 33, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S01427164110003850142-7164 , eISSN 1469-1817https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716411000385https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/30634This is the Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Cambridge University Press in Applied Psycholinguistics, 33, 2012, available online: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716411000385Este es el manuscrito aceptado de un artículo publicado por Cambridge University Press en Applied Psycholinguistics, 33, 2012, disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716411000385Financiación: This research has been funded by a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Spanish Government (AP2003-5098) to Pastora Martínez-Castilla and an award from the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC, UK) (RES-000-22-1302) to Vesna Stojanovik and Jane Setter.The aim of this study was to compare the prosodic profiles of English- and Spanish-speaking children with Williams syndrome (WS), examining cross-linguistic differences. Two groups of children with WS, English and Spanish, of similar chronological and nonverbal mental age, were compared on performance in expressive and receptive prosodic tasks from the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech–Communication Battery in its English or Spanish version. Differences between the English and Spanish WS groups were found regarding the understanding of affect through prosodic means, using prosody to make words more prominent, and imitating different prosodic patterns. Such differences between the two WS groups on function prosody tasks mirrored the cross-linguistic differences already reported in typically developing children.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess61 PsicologíaProsodic abilities in Spanish and English children with Williams syndrome. A cross-linguistic studyartículoWilliams syndromeprosodycross-linguistic studyEnglishSpanish