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Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Fletcher, Fay; Henderson, Lisa-Marie; Walker, Sarah; Norbury, Courtenay F.; Gaskell, M. Gareth – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Establishing stable and flexible phonological representations is a key component of language development and one which is thought to vary across children with neurodevelopmental disorders affecting language acquisition. Sleep is understood to support the learning and generalization of new phonological mappings in adults, but this remains…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Sleep, Phonological Awareness
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Epstein, Baila; Hestvik, Arild; Shafer, Valerie L.; Schwartz, Richard G. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show particular difficulty comprehending and producing object ("Who did the bear follow?") relative to subject ("Who followed the tiger?") "wh"-questions. Aims: To determine if school-age children with SLI, relative to children with typical development (TD),…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Comprehension, Short Term Memory
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Demir, Özlem Ece; Rowe, Meredith L.; Heller, Gabriella; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Levine, Susan C. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examines the role of a particular kind of linguistic input--talk about the past and future, pretend, and explanations, that is, talk that is decontextualized--in the development of vocabulary, syntax, and narrative skill in typically developing (TD) children and children with pre- or perinatal brain injury (BI). Decontextualized talk…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Syntax, Language Skills, Children