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Publication Date: 2006-Jul
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Structural Priming in Children with and without Specific Language Impairment
Miller, Carol A.; Deevy, Patricia
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, v20 n5 p387-399 Jul 2006
Primary objective: To determine if structural priming can be demonstrated in young children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Research design: A mixed-model design was used to compare children with SLI to two groups of typically developing (TD) children, and to compare priming conditions. Methods and procedures: Eighteen children with SLI and 36 TD children (18 matched on age and 18 matched on MLU) participated. Children were asked to describe drawings compatible with both a transitive or an intransitive sentence structure, after being primed with one of the structures. Results: All groups of children were more likely to produce transitive sentences when they had just heard and repeated a transitive prime. Children with SLI did not differ from the other groups. Conclusions: Children with SLI show similar priming effects to TD children. Priming has promise as a method for investigating production factors in typical and atypical language development. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Preschool Children, Learning Disabilities, Prompting, Cues, Multivariate Analysis, Morphology (Languages), Verbs
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Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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