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ALSPAC – Age 5 – Multisyllabic Word Repetition

The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) assessed their cohort members (CMs) at 61 months’ age (Children in Focus Clinic) using the Multisyllabic Word Repetition measure.

Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.


Year of data collection:1997-1998
Domain:Verbal repetition
Measures:Verbal expression
CHC:Unknown
CLOSER Source:Explore this sweep in CLOSER Discovery: ALSPAC Childhood (5 years to 12 years 11 months) (opens in a new tab)
Administration method:Trained interviewer; clinical setting; questions answered orally
Procedure:Children were asked to repeat two multisyllabic words; "buttercup" and "dinosaur".
Link to questionnaire:http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/our-data/clinical-measures/ (opens in new tab)
Scoring:Each word was scored as not correct/correct (0 - 1)
Item-level variable(s):cf480 - cf485e
Total score/derived variable(s):cf481, cf482, cf483
Descriptives:Not available
Age of participants (months):Mean = 67.19, SD = 0.8, Range = 65 - 73
Other sweep and/or cohort:None
Source:Devised specifically for ALSPAC
Technical resources:None
Example articles:None

For the named items in the table above, links are provided to their corresponding content on CLOSER Discovery. Where a variable range is provided, full variable lists can be accessed through the ‘Variable Groups’ tab on the linked Discovery page.


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This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.