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Bader, Markus; Meng, Michael – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Most current models of sentence comprehension assume that the human parsing mechanism (HPM) algorithmically computes detailed syntactic representations as basis for extracting sentence meaning. These models share the assumption that the representations computed by the HPM accurately reflect the linguistic input. This assumption has been challenged…
Descriptors: Sentences, Misconceptions, Comprehension, Models
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Montgomery, James W.; Gillam, Ronald B.; Evans, Julia L.; Sergeev, Alexander V. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: With Aim 1, we compared the comprehension of and sensitivity to canonical and noncanonical word order structures in school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) and same-age typically developing (TD) children. Aim 2 centered on the developmental improvement of sentence comprehension in the groups. With Aim 3, we compared…
Descriptors: Sentences, Comprehension, Language Impairments, Children
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Jensen De Lopez, Kristine; Olsen, Lone Sundahl; Chondrogianni, Vasiliki – Journal of Child Language, 2014
This study examines the comprehension and production of subject and object relative clauses (SRCs, ORCs) by children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and their typically developing (TD) peers. The purpose is to investigate whether relative clauses are problematic for Danish children with SLI and to compare errors with those produced by TD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Language Impairments, Comprehension
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Bosco, Francesca M.; Angeleri, Romina; Sacco, Katiuscia; Bara, Bruno G. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: The purpose of this study is to investigate the pragmatic abilities of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Several studies in the literature have previously reported communicative deficits in individuals with TBI, however such research has focused principally on communicative deficits in general, without providing an…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Brain, Pragmatics, Cognitive Ability
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Hartley, Calum; Allen, Melissa L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Previous word learning studies suggest that children with autism spectrum disorder may have difficulty understanding pictorial symbols. Here we investigate the ability of children with autism spectrum disorder and language-matched typically developing children to contextualize symbolic information communicated by pictures in a search task that did…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Andreu, Llorenc; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Olmos, Joan Guardia; MacWhinney, Brian – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
This study investigates narrative comprehension and production in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Twelve children with SLI (mean age 5;8 years) and 12 typically developing children (mean age 5;6 years) participated in an eye-tracking experiment designed to investigate online narrative comprehension and production in Catalan- and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Eye Movements, Language Impairments, Human Body
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Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Child Development, 1985
Findings suggest that semantic knowledge for concrete objects is represented and organized in similar ways in autistic, retarded, and normal children. Previous findings on cognitive deficits in autistic children are more likely related to their inability to use cognitive representations in an appropriate and flexible manner. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Autism, Classification, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Kotsonis, Miriam E.; Patterson, Charlotte J. – 1980
This study compared the comprehension monitoring skills of learning disabled (LD) and normal elementary school children. Comprehension monitoring, the ability to evaluate one's level of understanding of incoming messages, was assessed using two separate tasks. In the first (referential task), the child took the role of the listener in a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Nation, Kate; Snowling, Margaret J.; Clarke, Paula – Journal of Child Language, 2005
Three experiments investigated the ability of eight-year old children with poor language comprehension to produce past tense forms of verbs. Twenty children selected as poor comprehenders were compared to 20 age-matched control children. Although the poor comprehenders performed less well than controls on a range of tasks considered to tap…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Comprehension, Semantics
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Paterson, Kevin B.; Liversedge, Simon P.; Rowland, Caroline; Filik, Ruth – Cognition, 2003
Three studies investigated the comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle "only" by children and adults. Contrary to previous findings, two of the studies found that young children made errors predominantly by failing to process contrast information rather than errors in which they failed to use syntactic information to…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension
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Marton, Klara; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003
This study examined the interaction between working memory and language comprehension in children with specific language impairment (SLI), focusing on the function of the central executive component and its interaction with the phonological loop (A. D. Baddeley, 1986) in complex working memory tasks. Thirteen children with SLI and 13 age-matched…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Language Impairments, Error Patterns
Smock, Charles D., Ed. – 1977
This set of 13 research reports, bulletins and papers is a product of the Mathemagenic Activities Program (MAP) for early childhood education of the University of Georgia Follow Through Program. Based on Piagetian theory, the MAP provides sequentially structured sets of curriculum materials and processes that are designed to continually challenge…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This volume of the 30th annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents: plenary panel papers; research forum papers; short oral communication papers; and poster presentation papers from the meeting. Information relating to discussion groups and working sessions is also provided.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction