Impaired implicit learning of syntactic structure in children with developmental language disorder: Evidence from syntactic priming:

Autism & Developmental Language Impairments

MariaGarraffa¹ 

关键词: Structural priming;    syntactic priming;    implicit learning;    syntax;    developmental language disorder;    specific language disorder;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2396941518779939

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Background and aimsImplicit learning mechanisms associated with detecting structural regularities have been proposed to underlie both the long-term acquisition of linguistic structure and a short-term tendency to repeat linguistic structure across sentences (structural priming) in typically developing children. Recent research has suggested that a deficit in such mechanisms may explain the inconsistent trajectory of language learning displayed by children with Developmental Learning Disorder. We used a structural priming paradigm to investigate whether a group of children with Developmental Learning Disorder showed impaired implicit learning of syntax (syntactic priming) following individual syntactic experiences, and the time course of any such effects.MethodsFive- to six-year-old Italian-speaking children with Developmental Learning Disorder and typically developing age-matched and language-matched controls played a picture-description-matching game with an experimenter. The experimenter’s descriptions ...

【 授权许可】

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