Sentence Repetition Accuracy in Adults With Developmental Language Impairment: Interactions of Participant Capacities and Sentence Structures.

Purpose: We asked whether sentence repetition accuracy could be explained by interactions of participant processing limitations with the structures of the sentences. We also tested a prediction of the procedural deficit hypothesis (Ullman & Pierpont, 2005) that adjuncts are more difficult than argum...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 302 - 317
Autores principales: Poll, Gerard H., Miller, Carol A., van Hell, Janet G.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Apr2016
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          Poll, Gerard H.
          Miller, Carol A.
          van Hell, Janet G.
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          Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL
          Pennsylvania State University, University Park
          Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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        Pennsylvania
        Language disorders
        Young adults
        Language acquisition
        Repetition (Learning process)
        Sentences (Grammar)
        Adjuncts (Grammar)
        Short-term memory
        Regression analysis
        Language ability testing
        Research funding
        T-test (Statistics)
        Repeated measures design
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          Language disorders
          Young adults
          Language acquisition
          Pennsylvania
          Repetition (Learning process)
          Sentences (Grammar)
          Adjuncts (Grammar)
          Short-term memory
          Regression analysis
          Language ability testing
          Research funding
          T-test (Statistics)
          Repeated measures design
      ab: Purpose: We asked whether sentence repetition accuracy could be explained by interactions of participant processing limitations with the structures of the sentences. We also tested a prediction of the procedural deficit hypothesis (Ullman & Pierpont, 2005) that adjuncts are more difficult than arguments for individuals with developmental language impairment (DLI). Method: Forty-four young adults participated, 21 with DLI. The sentence repetition task varied sentence length and the use of arguments and adjuncts. We also administered measures of working memory and processing speed. Our regression models focused on these interactions: group and argument status; processing speed, length, and argument status; and working memory capacity, length, and argument status. Results: Language ability group was a significant predictor of sentence repetition accuracy but did not interact with argument status. Processing speed interacted with sentence length and argument status. Working memory capacity and its separate interactions with argument status and sentence length predicted sentence repetition accuracy. Conclusions: Many adults with DLI may have difficulty with adjuncts as a result of their working memory limitations rather than their language ability. Cognitive limitations common to individuals with DLI are revealed more by particular sentence structures, suggesting ways to construct more diagnostically accurate sentence repetition tasks.
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