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Hannah Witherstone – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) impacts various aspects of children's language abilities, including the processing of inflectional morphology. Prior research suggests that children with DLD exhibit deficits in processing speed and sensitivity to grammatical inflections, yet the relationship between these deficits remains unclear.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Grammar, Developmental Disabilities, Language Skills
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Lammertink, Imme; Boersma, Paul; Wijnen, Frank; Rispens, Judith – Language Learning, 2020
Successful language use requires the ability to process nonadjacent dependencies (NADs) that occur in linguistic input. Learning such structural regularities seems therefore crucial for children, and researchers have indeed proposed that language problems in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), especially problems with grammar, are…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Grammar
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West, Gillian; Shanks, David R.; Hulme, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
The procedural deficit hypothesis claims that impaired procedural learning is a causal risk factor for developmental dyslexia and developmental language disorder. We investigated the relationships between measures of basic cognitive processes (declarative learning, procedural learning and attention) and measures of attainment (reading, grammar and…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Learning Processes, Predictor Variables, Reading Skills
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Hedenius, Martina; Persson, Jonas; Tremblay, Antoine; Adi-Japha, Esther; Verissimo, Joao; Dye, Cristina D.; Alm, Per; Jennische, Margareta; Tomblin, J. Bruce; Ullman, Michael T. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The Procedural Deficit Hypothesis (PDH) posits that Specific Language Impairment (SLI) can be largely explained by abnormalities of brain structures that subserve procedural memory. The PDH predicts impairments of procedural memory itself, and that such impairments underlie the grammatical deficits observed in the disorder. Previous studies have…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Grammar, Language Impairments, Neurology
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Rakhlin, Natalia; Kornilov, Sergey A.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Two experiments tested whether Russian-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) are sensitive to gender agreement when performing a gender decision task. In Experiment 1, the presence of overt gender agreement between verbs and/or adjectival modifiers and postverbal subject nouns memory was varied. In Experiment 2, agreement…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Accuracy, Language Acquisition
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Montgomery, James W. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: This study investigates the effects of two dimensions of attentional functioning, sustained focus of attention and resource capacity/allocation, on the real-time processing of simple sentences by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children matched for age. Methods & Procedures: Thirty-six…
Descriptors: Children, Auditory Perception, Attention, Language Processing
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Montgomery, James W.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: This study reports the findings of an investigation designed to examine the effects of acoustic enhancement on the processing of low-phonetic-substance inflections (e.g., 3rd-person singular "-s," possessive "-s") versus a high-phonetic-substance inflection (e.g., present progressive "-ing") by children with specific language impairment…
Descriptors: Children, Acoustics, Morphemes, Language Impairments
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Reyes, Iliana; Hernandez, Arturo E. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
This study examined sentence processing in emergent bilingual children and young adults in both English (second language -- L2) and Spanish (first language -- L1). One hundred participants from five different age groups (5;4-7;11, 8;0-10;11, 11;2-13;11, 14;0-16;8 years, and college-age adults) participated in this study. An online sentence…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Reaction Time, Form Classes (Languages)