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Weismer, Susan Ellis; Venker, Courtney E.; Evans, Julia L.; Moyle, Maura Jones – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study investigated fast mapping in late-talking (LT) toddlers and toddlers with normal language (NL) development matched on age, nonverbal cognition, and maternal education. The fast-mapping task included novel object labels and familiar words. The LT group scored significantly lower than the NL group on novel word comprehension and…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Language Acquisition, Probability, Concept Mapping
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Montgomery, James W.; Evans, Julia L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: This study investigated the association of 2 mechanisms of working memory (phonological short-term memory [PSTM], attentional resource capacity/allocation) with the sentence comprehension of school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 2 groups of control children. Method: Twenty-four children with SLI, 18 age-matched…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Impairments, Short Term Memory, Language Processing
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Montgomery, James W.; Evans, Julia L.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
We investigated the relation of two dimensions of attentional functioning (sustained auditory attention and resource capacity/allocation) and complex sentence comprehension of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and a group of typically developing (TD) children matched for age. Twenty-six school-age children with SLI and 26 TD peers…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Impairments, Children, Auditory Perception
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Coady, Jeffry A.; Evans, Julia L. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: The non-word repetition task (NRT) has gained wide acceptance in describing language acquisition in both children with normal language development (NL) and children with specific language impairments (SLI). This task has gained wide acceptance because it so closely matches the phonological component of word learning, and correlates…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Language Impairments, Auditory Perception, Short Term Memory