Children with specific language impairment: The role of prosodic processes in explaining difficulties in processing syntactic information

Sabisch, Beate; Hahne, Anja; Glass, Elisabeth; Suchodoletz, Waldemar von; Friederici, Angela D.

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2009.01.012

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“…Abilities related to word prosody including stress may dissociate from other levels of prosodic processing like phrase or discourse (Samuelsson & Nettelbladt, 2004). Given that successful processing of word stress is crucially important for the acquisition of a broad range of linguistic abilities, it is not surprising that disorders of word stress processing may be related to deficits at other processing domains, including lexical knowledge (Weber et al, 2005), morphological (Domahs, Lohmann, et al, in press; Kauschke et al, in press) and syntactic (Gallon et al, 2007;McGregor & Leonard, 1994;Sabisch, Hahne, Glass, von Suchodoletz, & Friederici, 2009) processing or reading acquisition (De Bree et al, 2006). Moreover, individual performance in early word stress processing has also been shown to be related to later language performance or impairment (Newman, Ratner, Jusczyk, Jusczyk, & Dow, 2006;Weber et al, 2005).…”

Section: Word Stress Processing In Disorders Of Language Acquisitionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Word stress processing in specific language impairment: Auditory or representational deficits?

Haake

Kob

Willmes

et al. 2013

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Word stress processing has repeatedly been reported to be affected in specific language impairment (SLI) with potential consequences for various aspects of language development. However, it still remains unresolved whether word stress impairments in SLI are due to deficits in basic auditory processing or to a degraded phonological representation or both. We addressed this question examining an unselected sample of 10 children with SLI and 11 typically developing (TD) children, aged about 8 years, with respect to their basic auditory processing (duration and skewness discrimination) and phonological representation of prosodic (word stress) and segmental (consonant) contrasts. Our results show lower performance of the SLI group compared to the TD group in all tasks. Crucially, two subgroups of children with SLI emerged from our analyses: While one group was impaired in basic auditory perception, particularly affecting duration discrimination, the other showed no significant auditory processing deficits but a representational impairment.

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Section: Word Stress Processing In Disorders Of Language Acquisitionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Word stress processing in specific language impairment: Auditory or representational deficits?

Haake

Kob

Willmes

et al. 2013

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…A number of studies suggest that aspects of prosody are a problematic area (Marshall, Hartcourt-Brown, Ramus, & van der Lely, 2009;Peppé, 2009;Peppé & McCann, 2003;Stojanovic & Setter, 2009;van der Meulen, Janssen, & Den Os, 1997;Weinert, 1992). Diverse manifestations of prosodic impairments in SLI have been shown; among others reduced performance in intonation tasks, differences in prosodic processing (Sabisch, Hahne, Glass, von Suchodoletz, & Friederici, 2009), limited understanding of the emotional meaning of prosody (Fujiki, Spackman, Brinton, & Illig, 2008) or problems in recognising and exploiting prosodic cues (Fisher, Plante, Vance, Gerken, & Glattke, 2007;Weinert, 1992). For the purpose of this study, problems with the perception or production of lexical stress are especially relevant.…”

Section: The Interface Of Prosody and Morphology In Language Acquisitmentioning

confidence: 98%

Prosodic constraints on inflected words: An area of difficulty for German-speaking children with specific language impairment?

Kauschke

Renner

Domahs

2013

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Recent studies suggest that morphosyntactic difficulties may result from prosodic problems. We therefore address the interface between inflectional morphology and prosody in typically developing children (TD) and children with SLI by testing whether these groups are sensitive to prosodic constraints that guide plural formation in German. A plural elicitation task was designed consisting of 60 words and 20 pseudowords. The performance of 14 German-speaking children with SLI (mean age 7.5) was compared to age-matched controls and to younger children matched for productive vocabulary. TD children performed significantly better than children with SLI. Error analyses revealed that children with SLI produced more forms that did not meet the optimal shape of a noun plural. Beyond the fact that children with SLI have deficits in plural marking, the findings suggest that they also show reduced sensitivity to prosodic requirements. In other words, the prosodic structure of inflected words seems to be vulnerable in children with SLI.

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“…47,48 Young children with SLI seem to have trouble perceiving prosodic fluctuations in speech 49, 50 that signal syntactic function and mark grammatical morphemes. 51 If weaker sensitivity to prosodic cues is one of the core deficits in SLI, then would exaggerating prosodic cues aid children with SLI in language acquisition? Interestingly, evidence has been found both in favor 52 and against 53 this hypothesis.…”

Section: Musical and Speech Rhythm In Specific Language Impairmentmentioning

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Perspectives on the rhythm–grammar link and its implications for typical and atypical language development

Gordon

Jacobs

Schuele

et al. 2015

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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This paper reviews the mounting evidence for shared cognitive mechanisms and neural resources for rhythm and grammar. Evidence for a role of rhythm skills in language development and language comprehension is reviewed here in three lines of research: (a) behavioral and brain data from adults and children, showing that prosody and other aspects of timing of sentences influence online morpho-syntactic processing; (b) co-morbidity of impaired rhythm with grammatical deficits in children with language impairment; and (c) our recent work showing a strong positive association between rhythm perception skills and expressive grammatical skills in young school-age children with typical development. Our preliminary follow-up study presented here revealed that musical rhythm perception predicted variance in six-year-old children’s production of complex syntax, as well as online reorganization of grammatical information (transformation); these data provide an additional perspective on the hierarchical relations potentially shared by rhythm and grammar. A theoretical framework for shared cognitive resources for the role of rhythm in perceiving and learning grammatical structure is elaborated on in light of potential implications for using rhythm-emphasized musical training to improve language skills in children.

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Children with specific language impairment: The role of prosodic processes in explaining difficulties in processing syntactic information

Cited by 31 publications

References 21 publications

Word stress processing in specific language impairment: Auditory or representational deficits?

Word stress processing in specific language impairment: Auditory or representational deficits?

Prosodic constraints on inflected words: An area of difficulty for German-speaking children with specific language impairment?

Perspectives on the rhythm–grammar link and its implications for typical and atypical language development

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