Statistical Learning in Specific Language Impairment: A Meta-Analysis.

Purpose: The current meta-analysis provides a quantitative overview of published and unpublished studies on statistical learning in the auditory verbal domain in people with and without specific language impairment (SLI). The database used for the meta-analysis is accessible online and open to updat...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 60; no. 12; pp. 3474 - 3487
Main Authors: Lammertink, Imme, Boersma, Paul, Wijnen, Frank, Rispens, Judith
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Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Dec2017
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          Lammertink, Imme
          Boersma, Paul
          Wijnen, Frank
          Rispens, Judith
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          Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
          Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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        Language disorders
        Phonetics
        Language acquisition
        Learning
        Linguistics
        Statistical learning
        Psychology of learning
        Meta-analysis
        Phonology
        Confidence intervals
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        Psychology information storage & retrieval systems
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        Online information services
        Probability theory
        Research funding
        Systematic reviews
        Effect sizes (Statistics)
        Maximum likelihood statistics
        Publication bias
        Data analysis software
        Descriptive statistics
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          Language disorders
          Phonetics
          Language acquisition
          Learning
          Linguistics
          Statistical learning
          Psychology of learning
          Meta-analysis
          Phonology
          Confidence intervals
          ERIC (Information retrieval system)
          Psychology information storage & retrieval systems
          MEDLINE
          Online information services
          Probability theory
          Research funding
          Systematic reviews
          Effect sizes (Statistics)
          Maximum likelihood statistics
          Publication bias
          Data analysis software
          Descriptive statistics
      ab: Purpose: The current meta-analysis provides a quantitative overview of published and unpublished studies on statistical learning in the auditory verbal domain in people with and without specific language impairment (SLI). The database used for the meta-analysis is accessible online and open to updates (Community-Augmented Meta- Analysis), which facilitates the accumulation and evaluation of previous and future studies on statistical learning in this domain. Method: A systematic literature search identified 10 unique experiments examining auditory verbal statistical learning in 213 participants with SLI and 363 without SLI, aged between 6 and 19 years. Data from qualifying studies were extracted and converted to Hedges' g effect sizes.Results: The overall standardized mean difference between participants with SLI and participants without SLI was 0.54, which was significantly different from 0 (p < .001, 95% confidence interval [0.36, 0.71]). Conclusion: Together, the results of our meta-analysis indicate a robust difference between people with SLI and people without SLI in their detection of statistical regularities in the auditory input. The detection of statistical regularities is, on average, not as effective in people with SLI compared with people without SLI. The results of this meta-analysis are congruent with a statistical learning deficit hypothesis in SLI.
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    language: English
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