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Emerging Verbal Functions in Early Infancy: Lessons from Observational and Computational Approaches on Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

OBJECTIVES: Research on typically developing (TD) children and those with neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic syndromes was targeted. Specifically, studies on autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, Rett syndrome, fragile X syndrome, cerebral palsy, Angelman syndrome, tuberous sclerosis comple...

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Autores principales: Marschik, Peter B., Widmann, Claudius A. A., Lang, Sigrun, Kulvicius, Tomas, Boterberg, Sofie, Nielsen-Saines, Karin, Bölte, Sven, Esposito, Gianluca, Nordahl-Hansen, Anders, Roeyers, Herbert, Wörgötter, Florentin, Einspieler, Christa, Poustka, Luise, Zhang, Dajie
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9762685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41252-022-00300-7
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author Marschik, Peter B.
Widmann, Claudius A. A.
Lang, Sigrun
Kulvicius, Tomas
Boterberg, Sofie
Nielsen-Saines, Karin
Bölte, Sven
Esposito, Gianluca
Nordahl-Hansen, Anders
Roeyers, Herbert
Wörgötter, Florentin
Einspieler, Christa
Poustka, Luise
Zhang, Dajie
author_facet Marschik, Peter B.
Widmann, Claudius A. A.
Lang, Sigrun
Kulvicius, Tomas
Boterberg, Sofie
Nielsen-Saines, Karin
Bölte, Sven
Esposito, Gianluca
Nordahl-Hansen, Anders
Roeyers, Herbert
Wörgötter, Florentin
Einspieler, Christa
Poustka, Luise
Zhang, Dajie
author_sort Marschik, Peter B.
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description OBJECTIVES: Research on typically developing (TD) children and those with neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic syndromes was targeted. Specifically, studies on autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, Rett syndrome, fragile X syndrome, cerebral palsy, Angelman syndrome, tuberous sclerosis complex, Williams-Beuren syndrome, Cri-du-chat syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, and West syndrome were searched. The objectives are to review observational and computational studies on the emergence of (pre-)babbling vocalisations and outline findings on acoustic characteristics of early verbal functions. METHODS: A comprehensive review of the literature was performed including observational and computational studies focusing on spontaneous infant vocalisations at the pre-babbling age of TD children, individuals with genetic or neurodevelopmental disorders. RESULTS: While there is substantial knowledge about early vocal development in TD infants, the pre-babbling phase in infants with neurodevelopmental and genetic syndromes is scarcely scrutinised. Related approaches, paradigms, and definitions vary substantially and insights into the onset and characteristics of early verbal functions in most above-mentioned disorders are missing. Most studies focused on acoustic low-level descriptors (e.g. fundamental frequency) which bore limited clinical relevance. This calls for computational approaches to analyse features of infant typical and atypical verbal development. CONCLUSIONS: Pre-babbling vocalisations as precursor for future speech-language functions may reveal valuable signs for identifying infants at risk for atypical development. Observational studies should be complemented by computational approaches to enable in-depth understanding of the developing speech-language functions. By disentangling features of typical and atypical early verbal development, computational approaches may support clinical screening and evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-97626852022-12-19 Emerging Verbal Functions in Early Infancy: Lessons from Observational and Computational Approaches on Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Marschik, Peter B. Widmann, Claudius A. A. Lang, Sigrun Kulvicius, Tomas Boterberg, Sofie Nielsen-Saines, Karin Bölte, Sven Esposito, Gianluca Nordahl-Hansen, Anders Roeyers, Herbert Wörgötter, Florentin Einspieler, Christa Poustka, Luise Zhang, Dajie Adv Neurodev Disord Article OBJECTIVES: Research on typically developing (TD) children and those with neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic syndromes was targeted. Specifically, studies on autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, Rett syndrome, fragile X syndrome, cerebral palsy, Angelman syndrome, tuberous sclerosis complex, Williams-Beuren syndrome, Cri-du-chat syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, and West syndrome were searched. The objectives are to review observational and computational studies on the emergence of (pre-)babbling vocalisations and outline findings on acoustic characteristics of early verbal functions. METHODS: A comprehensive review of the literature was performed including observational and computational studies focusing on spontaneous infant vocalisations at the pre-babbling age of TD children, individuals with genetic or neurodevelopmental disorders. RESULTS: While there is substantial knowledge about early vocal development in TD infants, the pre-babbling phase in infants with neurodevelopmental and genetic syndromes is scarcely scrutinised. Related approaches, paradigms, and definitions vary substantially and insights into the onset and characteristics of early verbal functions in most above-mentioned disorders are missing. Most studies focused on acoustic low-level descriptors (e.g. fundamental frequency) which bore limited clinical relevance. This calls for computational approaches to analyse features of infant typical and atypical verbal development. CONCLUSIONS: Pre-babbling vocalisations as precursor for future speech-language functions may reveal valuable signs for identifying infants at risk for atypical development. Observational studies should be complemented by computational approaches to enable in-depth understanding of the developing speech-language functions. By disentangling features of typical and atypical early verbal development, computational approaches may support clinical screening and evaluation. 2022-12 2022-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9762685/ /pubmed/36540761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41252-022-00300-7 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Marschik, Peter B.
Widmann, Claudius A. A.
Lang, Sigrun
Kulvicius, Tomas
Boterberg, Sofie
Nielsen-Saines, Karin
Bölte, Sven
Esposito, Gianluca
Nordahl-Hansen, Anders
Roeyers, Herbert
Wörgötter, Florentin
Einspieler, Christa
Poustka, Luise
Zhang, Dajie
Emerging Verbal Functions in Early Infancy: Lessons from Observational and Computational Approaches on Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
title Emerging Verbal Functions in Early Infancy: Lessons from Observational and Computational Approaches on Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
title_full Emerging Verbal Functions in Early Infancy: Lessons from Observational and Computational Approaches on Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
title_fullStr Emerging Verbal Functions in Early Infancy: Lessons from Observational and Computational Approaches on Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
title_full_unstemmed Emerging Verbal Functions in Early Infancy: Lessons from Observational and Computational Approaches on Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
title_short Emerging Verbal Functions in Early Infancy: Lessons from Observational and Computational Approaches on Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
title_sort emerging verbal functions in early infancy: lessons from observational and computational approaches on typical development and neurodevelopmental disorders
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9762685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41252-022-00300-7
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