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Stanford, Emily; Delage, Hélène – First Language, 2020
Working memory (WM) limitations are frequently reported for children with specific learning disorder (SLD). However, WM capacity influences more than literacy and numeracy, as research highlights the contribution of WM to language development, in particular syntax. In this article, the authors study the effect of syntactic intervention, i.e.…
Descriptors: Syntax, Short Term Memory, Intervention, Phrase Structure
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Bialystok, Ellen; Luk, Gigi – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
English receptive vocabulary scores from 797 monolingual and 808 bilingual participants between the ages of 17 and 89 years old were aggregated from 20 studies to compare standard scores across language groups. The distribution of scores was unimodal for both groups but the mean score was significantly different, with monolinguals obtaining higher…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Receptive Language
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Kambanaros, Maria; Grohmann, Kleanthes K. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
The Greek and the English versions of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) were used to assess the linguistic abilities of a premorbidly highly proficient late bilingual female after a haemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident involving the left temporo-parietal lobe. The BAT was administered in the two languages on separate occasions by the first author,…
Descriptors: Accidents, Aphasia, Pathology, Foreign Countries
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Martinez-Castilla, Pastora; Peppe, Sue – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Well-documented Romance-Germanic differences in the use of accent in speech to convey information-structure and focus cause problems for the assessment of prosodic skills in populations with clinical disorders. The strategies for assessing the ability to use lexical and contrastive accent in English and Spanish are reviewed, and studies in the…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Autism, Spanish, English