Iao, L.-S. ORCID: 0000-0002-3509-9712, Ng, L.Y., Wong, A.M.Y. and Lee, O.T.,
2017.
Non-adjacent dependency learning in Cantonese-speaking
children with and without a history of specific language
impairment.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, pp. 694-700.
ISSN 1092-4388
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Abstract
Purpose: This study investigated non-adjacent dependency learning in Cantonese-speaking children with and without a history of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in an artificial linguistic context.
Method: Sixteen Cantonese-speaking children with SLI history and 16 Cantonese-speaking children with typical language development (TLD) were tested with a non-adjacent dependency learning task using artificial languages that mimic Cantonese.
Results: Children with TLD performed above chance and were able to discriminate between trained and untrained non-adjacent dependencies. However, children with SLI
history performed at chance and were not able to differentiate trained versus untrained non-adjacent dependencies.
Conclusions: These findings, together with previous findings with English-speaking adults and adolescents with language impairments, suggested that individuals with atypical language development, regardless of age, diagnostic status, language and culture, showed difficulties in learning non-adjacent dependencies. This study provides evidence for early impairments to statistical learning in individuals with atypical language development.
Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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Alternative Title: | Non-adjacent dependency learning in SLI [running head] | ||||||
Publication Title: | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research | ||||||
Creators: | Iao, L.-S., Ng, L.Y., Wong, A.M.Y. and Lee, O.T. | ||||||
Publisher: | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | ||||||
Date: | 2017 | ||||||
Volume: | 60 | ||||||
ISSN: | 1092-4388 | ||||||
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Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
Record created by: | Jill Tomkinson | ||||||
Date Added: | 22 Aug 2016 15:51 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 14:05 | ||||||
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28345 |
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