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Peer reviewedPlante, Elena; Gomez, Rebecca; Gerken, LouAnn – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
Sixteen adults with language/learning disabilities (L/LD) and 16 controls participated in a study testing sensitivity to word order cues that signaled grammatical versus ungrammatical word strings belonging to an artificial grammar. Participants with L/LD performed significantly below the comparison group, suggesting that this skill is problematic…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Disorders, Cues, Grammar
