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McArthur, G. M.; Ellis, D.; Atkinson, C. M.; Coltheart, M. – Cognition, 2008
Sixty-five children with specific reading disability (SRD), 25 children with specific language impairment (SLI), and 37 age-matched controls were tested for their frequency discrimination, rapid auditory processing, vowel discrimination, and consonant-vowel discrimination. Subgroups of children with SRD or SLI produced abnormal frequency…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Spelling, Speech, Vowels
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Clahsen, Harald; Almazan, Mayella – Cognition, 1998
Investigated four cases of English-speaking children with Williams Syndrome (WS), a neuro-developmental disorder characterized by an unusual fractionation of language abilities. Found that, despite low IQ, subjects performance on syntactic tasks and on regular inflection is not impaired, suggesting a distinction between a computation system and an…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Language Processing, Morphology (Languages)
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Ullman, Michael T. – Cognition, 2004
The structure of the brain and the nature of evolution suggest that, despite its uniqueness, language likely depends on brain systems that also subserve other functions. The declarative/procedural (DP) model claims that the mental lexicon of memorized word-specific knowledge depends on the largely temporal-lobe substrates of declarative memory,…
Descriptors: Memory, Models, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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van der Lely, Heather K. J.; Rosen, Stuart; Adlard, Alan – Cognition, 2004
Grammatical-specific language impairment (G-SLI) in children, arguably, provides evidence for the existence of a specialised grammatical sub-system in the brain, necessary for normal language development. Some researchers challenge this, claiming that domain-general, low-level auditory deficits, particular to rapid processing, cause phonological…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Auditory Discrimination, Language Impairments
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van der Lely, Heather K. J. – Cognition, 1994
Three experiments investigated the nature of productive forward linking (from semantics to syntax) and productive reverse linking (from syntax to semantics) in language-impaired children. Found that the normally developing control subjects showed a good use of productive forward and reverse linking, whereas the language-impaired subjects…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Processing, Language Research, Language Skills
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Frank, Robert – Cognition, 1998
Demonstrates that an understanding of children's language-acquisition difficulties with a wide range of syntactic constructions should be derived from limitations on the child's ability to deal with processing load and formal representational complexity. Maintains this can be done only in the context of a view of syntactic representation…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Grammar, Individual Development
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Berndt, Rita Sloan; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Investigated the source of agrammatic aphasic patients' difficulty comprehending semantically reversible sentences. Found approximately equal distributions of three distinct patterns. Results conflict with explanations of comprehension failure which state that a single pattern of performance on sentence structures characterizes comprehension of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Grammar