Typically, studies have required participants to repeat sentences to themselves in their heads, or, sometimes, count the syllables in words presented on a computer screen.
8 2) Repeat Test takers repeat sentences verbatim.
However, when NR was implemented, the negative effect of noise on recall was reduced, even though the ability to repeat sentence-final words remained the same [ 83].
In this task, the child is asked to repeat sentences of increasing length.
It evaluates facial droop and arm drift, speech is tested by asking the patient to repeat sentences.
The ability to repeat sentences verbatim was not an area of concern for the TBI group here, consistent with other studies reporting that sentence repetition was relatively spared in children whose TBI occurred after the preschool period (Ewing-Cobbs & Barnes, 2002; Sullivan & Riccio, 2010) – as in our sample.
All other participants were administered the Test for Reception of Grammar Electronic (Bishop, 2005), an assessment of syntactic comprehension (receptive language), and the memory for sentences subtest of the NEPSY (Korkman et al., 1998), which requires participants to repeat sentences of increasing complexity (expressive language).
Don't repeat sentences over and over!
Student James Jackson said activists from Cambridge Defend Education read out a prepared statement which was repeated sentence by sentence by other demonstrators in the audience – a technique used by Occupy activists.
No matter how much do you give to a child you will hear a repeated sentence 'I want more'.
My partner sometimes shouts out words uncontrollably and repeats sentences as if on a loop.
