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Royle, Phaedra; Stine, Isabelle – Journal of Child Language, 2013
We studied spontaneous speech noun-phrase production in eight French-speaking children with SLI (aged 5;0 to 5; 1) and controls matched on age (4;10 to 5;11) or MLU (aged 3;2 to 4;1). Results showed that children with SLI prefer simple DP structures to complex ones while producing more substitution and omission errors than controls. The three…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, French, Language Impairments, Nouns
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Cho, Jacee; Slabakova, Roumyana – Second Language Research, 2014
This article investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of two expressions of the semantic feature [definite] in Russian, a language without articles, by English and Korean native speakers. Within the Feature Reassembly approach (Lardiere, 2009), Slabakova (2009) has argued that reassembling features that are represented overtly in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Translation, Russian, Native Language
Tops, Wim; Callens, Maaike; Bijn, Evi; Brysbaert, Marc – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
In this study we focused on the spelling of high-functioning students with dyslexia. We made a detailed classification of the errors in a word and sentence dictation task made by 100 students with dyslexia and 100 matched control students. All participants were in the first year of their bachelor's studies and had Dutch as mother tongue. Three…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Spelling Instruction, Spelling, Adolescents
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Colombo, Lucia; Fonti, Cristina; Stracciari, Andrea – Neuropsychologia, 2009
A group of 20 patients with probable Alzheimer disease (AD) and a control group were tested in a verb generation task, in a verb synonym task and several cognitive tests. Three types of verbs and novel verbs were presented in simple sentence frames, in two different conditions. In one condition participants were presented with the verb in the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Semantics, Verbs, Alzheimers Disease
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Bormann, Tobias; Kulke, Florian; Wallesch, Claus-W.; Blanken, Gerhard – Brain and Language, 2008
Within a discrete two-stage model of lexicalization, semantic errors and errors of omission are assumed to be independent events. In contrast, cascading and interactive models allow for an influence of word form on lexical selection and thus for an inherent relationship in accounting for both error types. A group of 17 aphasic patients was…
Descriptors: Semantics, Aphasia, Patients, Semiotics
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Meteyard, Lotte; Patterson, Karalyn – Brain and Language, 2009
In order to explore the impact of a degraded semantic system on the structure of language production, we analysed transcripts from autobiographical memory interviews to identify naturally-occurring speech errors by eight patients with semantic dementia (SD) and eight age-matched normal speakers. Relative to controls, patients were significantly…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Semantics, Grammar
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Vogel, Adam P.; Chenery, Helen J.; Dart, Catriona M.; Doan, Binh; Tan, Mildred; Copland, David A. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
Lexical-semantic access and retrieval was examined in 15 adults diagnosed with schizophrenia and matched controls. This study extends the literature through the inclusion of multiple examinations of lexical-semantic production within the same patient group and through correlating performance on these tasks with various positive and negative…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phonology, Semantics, Schizophrenia
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Royle, Phaedra; Thordardottir, Elin T. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
This study examines inflectional abilities in French-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) using a verb elicitation task. Eleven children with SLI and age-matched controls (37-52 months) participated in the experiment. We elicited the "passe compose" using eight regular and eight irregular high frequency verbs matched for age…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Error Patterns, French
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Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Bennetto, Loisa – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Language in autism has been the subject of intense interest, because communication deficits are central to the disorder, and because autism serves as an arena for testing theories of language acquisition. High-functioning older children with autism are often considered to have intact grammatical abilities, despite pragmatic impairments. Given the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age Differences, Autism, Language Skills