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Subject-Verb Agreement and Verbal Short-Term Memory: A Perspective from Greek Children with Specific Language Impairment
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Lalioti, Marina; Stavrakaki, Stavroula; Manouilidou, Christina; Talli, Ioanna – First Language, 2016
This study investigated the performance of school age Greek-speaking children with SLI on verbal short-term memory (VSTM) and Subject-Verb (S-V) agreement in comparison to chronological age controls and younger typically developing children. VSTM abilities were assessed by means of a non-word repetition task (NRT) and an elicited production task,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages)
Morphosyntax and Logical Abilities in Italian Poor Readers: The Problem of SLI Under-Identification
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Arosio, Fabrizio; Pagliarini, Elena; Perugini, Maria; Barbieri, Lina; Guasti, Maria Teresa – First Language, 2016
The study investigated morphosyntactic abilities and semantic-pragmatic competence in 24 children with developmental dyslexia aged 7-12 years. Morphosyntactic abilities were investgated in a direct object clitic production task, semantic-pragmatic competence in a quantifier comprehension task. Children with dyslexia produced fewer clitics than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Morphology (Languages), Syntax