Impact of Language Abilities on Exact and Approximate Number Skills Development: Evidence From Children With Specific Language Impairment.

Purpose: Counting and exact arithmetic rely on language-based representations, whereas number comparison and approximate arithmetic involve approximate quantity-based representations that are available early in life, before the first stages of language acquisition. The objective of this study was to...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 956 - 971
Autores principales: Nys, Julie, Content, Alain, Leybaert, Jacqueline, Oetting, Janna
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jun2013
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          Nys, Julie
          Content, Alain
          Leybaert, Jacqueline
          Oetting, Janna
        affil: Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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        Ability
        Age distribution
        Analysis of variance
        Child development
        Intelligence tests
        Language acquisition
        Phonetics
        Special education
        Training
        Case-control method
        Analysis of covariance
        Language disorders in children
        Mathematics
        Neuropsychological tests
        Research funding
        Descriptive statistics
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        subj:
          Ability
          Age distribution
          Analysis of variance
          Child development
          Intelligence tests
          Language acquisition
          Phonetics
          Special education
          Training
          Case-control method
          Analysis of covariance
          Language disorders in children
          Mathematics
          Neuropsychological tests
          Research funding
          Descriptive statistics
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        approximate number system
        arithmetic
        elementary school children
        mathematical development
        number skills
        specific language impairment (SLI)
        approximate number system
        arithmetic
        elementary school children
        mathematical development
        number skills
        specific language impairment (SLI)
      ab: Purpose: Counting and exact arithmetic rely on language-based representations, whereas number comparison and approximate arithmetic involve approximate quantity-based representations that are available early in life, before the first stages of language acquisition. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of language abilities on the later development of exact and approximate number skills. Method: Twenty-eight 7- to 14-year-old children with specific language impairment (SLI) completed exact and approximate number tasks involving quantities presented symbolically and nonsymbolically. They were compared with age-matched (AM) and vocabulary-matched (VM) children. Results: In the exact arithmetic task, the accuracy of children with SLI was lower than that of AM and VM controls and related to phonological measures. In the symbolic approximate tasks, children with SLI were less accurate than AM controls, but the difference vanished when their cognitive skills were considered or when they were compared with younger VM controls. In the nonsymbolic approximate tasks, children with SLI did not differ significantly from controls. Further, accuracy in the approximate number tasks was unrelated to language measures. Conclusions: Language impairment is related to reduced exact arithmetic skills, whereas it does not intrinsically affect the development of approximate number skills in children with SLI.
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    language: English
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