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Liegeois, Frederique; Morgan, Angela T.; Stewart, Lorna H.; Cross, J. Helen; Vogel, Adam P.; Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh – Brain and Language, 2010
Hemispherectomy (disconnection or removal of an entire cerebral hemisphere) is a rare surgical procedure used for the relief of drug-resistant epilepsy in children. After hemispherectomy, contralateral hemiplegia persists whereas gross expressive and receptive language functions can be remarkably spared. Motor speech deficits have rarely been…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Children, Receptive Language, Profiles
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Friedmann, N.; Novogrodsky, R. – Brain and Language, 2007
Children with Syntactic Specific Language Impairment (S-SLI) have difficulties understanding object relative clauses, which have been ascribed to a deficit in syntactic movement. The current study explores the nature of the deficit in movement, and specifically whether it is related to a deficit in the construction of syntactic structure and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Sentences, Language Impairments, Grammar
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Marchman, Virginia A.; Saccuman, Cristina; Wulfeck, Beverly – Brain and Language, 2004
In this study, 22 children with early left hemisphere (LHD) or right hemisphere (RHD) focal brain lesions (FL, n=14 LHD, n=8 RHD) were administered an English past tense elicitation test (M=6.5 years). Proportion correct and frequency of overregularization and zero-marking errors were compared to age-matched samples of children with specific…
Descriptors: English, Morphemes, Children, Neurological Impairments