Recognition of gated verbs by children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment: Effects of inflection and frequency

Marshall, Chloë; Lely, Heather K. J. van der

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.10.003

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“…However, children with SLI vacillated more between the target and incorrect cohort items after the isolation point, suggesting that word recognition in SLI is more vulnerable to interference from competing activated representations. This finding was replicated by Marshall and van der Lely (2008).…”

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Auditory perception and word recognition in Cantonese-Chinese speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment

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Auditory processing and spoken word recognition difficulties have been observed in Specific Language Impairment (SLI), raising the possibility that auditory perceptual deficits disrupt word recognition and, in turn, phonological processing and oral language. In this study, fifty-seven kindergarten children with SLI and fifty-three language-typical age-matched controls were assessed with a speech-gating task to measure spoken word recognition, psychophysical tasks to measure auditory Frequency Modulation (FM) detection and Frequency Discrimination (FD), and standardized psychometric tests of phonological processing and oral language. As a group, children with SLI took significantly longer than language-typical controls to recognize words with high neighborhood density, perhaps reflecting subpar phonological representations. FM, but not FD, was significantly worse in SLI. However, while both poorer speech-gating performance and poorer auditory thresholds (FM) were evident in SLI, spoken word recognition did not mediate any relation between auditory perception and either phonological processing or oral language.

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Auditory perception and word recognition in Cantonese-Chinese speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment

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“…Parallel studies of SLI real-time processing abilities could be quite illuminating; not only could direct comparisons be made between typical and atypical language processing development, but also the results could be evaluated within the sometimes highly articulated processing theories that exist in this literature. To date, however, relatively few behavioral studies have used real-time measures to investigate children with SLI (e.g., Ellis Weismer, Evans, & Hesketh, 1999; Marinis & van der Lely, 2007; Marshall & van der Lely, 2006, 2008; Montgomery, 2000, 2002; Montgomery & Leonard, 1998; Montgomery, Scudder, & Moore, 1990; Sabisch, Hahne, Glass, von Suchodoletz, & Friederici, 2006; Stark & Montgomery, 1995; van der Lely, 2005) and only one has used the visual-world paradigm (i.e., a study of adolescents with SLI; McMurray, Samelson, Lee, & Tomblin, 2010, discussed further below).…”

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Anticipatory sentence processing in children with specific language impairment: Evidence from eye movements during listening

Andreu

Sanz‐Torrent

Trueswell

2012

Applied Psycholinguistics

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Twenty-five children with specific language impairment (SLI; age 5 years, 3 months [5;3]-8;2), 50 typically developing children (3;3-8;2), and 31 normal adults participated in three eye-tracking experiments of spoken language comprehension that were designed to investigate the use of verb information during real-time sentence comprehension in Spanish. In Experiment 1, participants heard sentences like El niño recorta con cuidado el papel (The boy trims carefully the paper) in the presence of four depicted objects, only one of which satisfied the semantic restrictions of the verb recorta (e.g., paper, clock, fox, and dinosaur). Eye movements revealed that children with SLI, like other groups, were able to recognize and retrieve the meaning of the verb rapidly enough to anticipate the upcoming semantically appropriate referent, prior to actually hearing the noun phrase el papel (the paper). Experiments 2 and 3 revealed that for all groups of participants, anticipatory eye movements were also modulated by the semantic fit of the object serving as the patient/theme of the verb. Relatively fine-grained semantic information of a verb was computed fast enough even by children with SLI to result in anticipatory eye movements to semantically appropriate referents. Children with SLI did differ from age-matched controls, but only slightly in terms of overall anticipatory looking at target objects; the time course of looking between these groups was quite similar. In addition, no differences were found between children with SLI and control children matched for mean length of utterance. Implications for theories that characterize SLI are discussed.Real-time language processing studies allow investigators to examine the unconscious mental representations and operations that are automatically invoked

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“…In gated lexical identification tasks, children with SLI require more time than do their TD peers to identify known words in isolation (Mainela-Arnold, et al, 2008; Marshall & van der Lely, 2008). Finally, children with SLI are also slower than their typical peers to identify and retrieve the meanings of words embedded in ongoing sentences (Montgomery, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006).…”

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Lexical activation during sentence comprehension in adolescents with history of Specific Language Impairment

Borovsky

Burns

Elman

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Journal of Communication Disorders

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One remarkable characteristic of speech comprehension in typically developing (TD) children and adults is the speed with which the listener can integrate information across multiple lexical items to anticipate upcoming referents. Although children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) show lexical deficits (Sheng & McGregor, 2010) and slower speed of processing (Leonard et al., 2007), relatively little is known about how these deficits manifest in real-time sentence comprehension. In this study, we examine lexical activation in the comprehension of simple transitive sentences in adolescents with a history of SLI and age-matched, TD peers. Participants listened to sentences that consisted of the form, Article-Agent-Action-Article-Theme, (e.g., The pirate chases the ship) while viewing pictures of four objects that varied in their relationship to the Agent and Action of the sentence (e.g., Target, Agent-Related, Action-Related, and Unrelated). Adolescents with SLI were as fast as their TD peers to fixate on the sentence’s final item (the Target) but differed in their post-action onset visual fixations to the Action-Related item. Additional exploratory analyses of the spatial distribution of their visual fixations revealed that the SLI group had a qualitatively different pattern of fixations to object images than did the control group. The findings indicate that adolescents with SLI integrate lexical information across words to anticipate likely or expected meanings with the same relative fluency and speed as do their TD peers. However, the failure of the SLI group to show increased fixations to Action-Related items after the onset of the action suggests lexical integration deficits that result in failure to consider alternate sentence interpretations.

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Recognition of gated verbs by children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment: Effects of inflection and frequency

Cited by 7 publications

References 48 publications

Auditory perception and word recognition in Cantonese-Chinese speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment

Auditory perception and word recognition in Cantonese-Chinese speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment

Anticipatory sentence processing in children with specific language impairment: Evidence from eye movements during listening

Lexical activation during sentence comprehension in adolescents with history of Specific Language Impairment

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