Contributions of Children's Linguistic and Working Memory Proficiencies to Their Judgments of Grammaticality

Autor/inn/en	Noonan, Nicolette B.; Redmond, Sean M.; Archibald, Lisa M. D.
Titel	Contributions of Children's Linguistic and Working Memory Proficiencies to Their Judgments of Grammaticality
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57 (2014) 3, S.979-989 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2014_JSLHR-L-12-0225
Schlagwörter	Short Term Memory; Language Impairments; Grammar; Error Patterns; Children; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Comparative Analysis; Metalinguistics; Language Processing; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Grammatik; Fehlertyp; Child; Kind; Kinder; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Sprachverarbeitung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Purpose: The authors explored the cognitive mechanisms involved in language processing by systematically examining the performance of children with deficits in the domains of working memory and language. Method: From a database of 370 school-age children who had completed a grammaticality judgment task, groups were identified with a co-occurring language and working memory impairment (LI-WMI; n = 18) or specific language impairment (SLI) with typical working memory skills ( n = 60) and matched control groups. Correct and incorrect use of grammatical markers occurred either early or late in sentence stimuli, imposing a greater working memory load for late-marker sentences. Results: Children with SLI showed a lower preference for grammatical items than typically developing controls, regardless of error marker position. Children with LI-WMI demonstrated a performance pattern modulated by error marker position: Their preference for grammatical items was lower than typically developing controls for late but not early marker sentences. Conclusion: This pattern of results suggests that there are distinct and dissociable impacts of working memory and linguistic skills on metalinguistic functioning through a grammatical judgment task. (As Provided).
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