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Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study examines the response patterns of 278 Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs) on a standardized test of receptive English vocabulary. Method: Investigators analyzed responses to 131 items on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Fourth Edition (Dunn & Dunn, 2007) focusing on differential accuracy on items influenced by…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Receptive Language, Vocabulary
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Mackie, Clare J.; Dockrell, Julie; Lindsay, Geoff – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
In this study, we performed a fine grained analysis of writing by children with a specific language impairment (SLI) and examined the contribution of oral language, phonological short-term memory (STM), nonverbal ability, and word reading to three writing constructs (productivity, complexity and accuracy). Forty-six children with SLI were compared…
Descriptors: Spelling, Language Impairments, Language Skills, Oral Language
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Liegeois, Frederique; Morgan, Angela T.; Stewart, Lorna H.; Cross, J. Helen; Vogel, Adam P.; Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh – Brain and Language, 2010
Hemispherectomy (disconnection or removal of an entire cerebral hemisphere) is a rare surgical procedure used for the relief of drug-resistant epilepsy in children. After hemispherectomy, contralateral hemiplegia persists whereas gross expressive and receptive language functions can be remarkably spared. Motor speech deficits have rarely been…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Children, Receptive Language, Profiles
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Dodd, Barbara; Basset, Barbara – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1987
The ability of 22 phonologically disordered and normally speaking children's ability to process (phonologically, syntactically, and semantically) spoken language was evaluated. No differences between groups was found in number of errors, pattern of errors, or reaction times when monitoring sentences for target words, irrespective of sentence type.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Error Patterns, Phonology
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Tyler, Ann A.; Lewis, Kerry E. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2005
This article explores selected phonological measures, their relationships to one another, and how groups differentiated by such measures change over time during intervention. Relationships among global quantitative measures of severity (percent consonants correct), measures of variability/consistency, and measures of whole-word complexity and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Syllables, Word Recognition, Control Groups