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Specific Language Impairment at Adolescence: Avoiding Complexity
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Tuller, Laurice; Henry, Celia; Sizaret, Eva; Barthez, Marie-Anne – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
This study explores complex language in adolescents with specific language impairment (SLI) with the aim of finding out how aspects of language characteristic of typical syntactic development after childhood fare and, in particular, whether there is evidence that individuals with SLI avoid using structures whose syntactic derivation involves…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Impairments, Adolescents, Syntax
Spoken Sentence Comprehension in Children with Dyslexia and Language Impairment: The Roles of Syntax and Working Memory
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Robertson, Erin K.; Joanisse, Marc F. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
We examined spoken sentence comprehension in school-age children with developmental dyslexia or language impairment (LI), compared to age-matched and younger controls. Sentence-picture matching tasks were employed under three different working memory (WM) loads, two levels of syntactic difficulty, and two sentence lengths. Phonological short-term…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Syntax, Dyslexia
Cross-Linguistic Transfer and Borrowing in Bilinguals
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Marian, Viorica; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
Cross-linguistic borrowing (overt use of words from the other language) and transfer (use of semantic or syntactic structures from the other language without active switching to that language) were examined during language production in Russian-English bilinguals. Grammatical category (noun/verb) and level of concreteness were found to influence…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Verbs
Relative Clause Sentence Production Using Augmentative and Alternative Communicative Systems.
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Sutton, Ann; Gallagher, Tanya; Morford, Jill; Shahnaz, Navid – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Investigated adult English speakers' production of subject and object relative clause sentences using a picture/symbol-based augmentative and alternative communication (ACC) system with speech output. Most participants avoided the potential ambiguity that resulted from the absence of grammatical markers. Results indicate the combined effects of…
Descriptors: Adults, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, English, Pictorial Stimuli
Grammatical Errors in Specific Language Impairment: Competence or Performance Limitations?
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Bishop, D. V. M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Analyzes speech samples from 9- to 12-year olds with specific language impairment. There were few differences between utterances that did and did not include correctly inflected forms; errors occurred on words later in an utterance. Slowed processing in a limited system handling several operations in parallel may lead to the omission of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis, Grammar
A Comparison of Clinical and Linguistic Indices of Deviance in the Verbal Discourse of Schizophrenics.
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Sanders, Lynne M.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995
Compared clinical and psycholinguistic approaches to the measurement of verbal behavior according to their ability to discriminate among individuals with schizophrenia, manic- depression, and controls. On the linguistic measures, the speech of individuals with schizophrenia differed significantly from the other two groups in productivity and…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Discourse Analysis