Productive use of the English past tense in children with focal brain injury and specific language impairment  

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Marchman, Virginia A. ; Saccuman, Cristina ; Wulfeck, Beverly

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 88 no. 2 (2004), page 202-214.
Topik: Specific language impairment; Focal brain injury; Morphology; English past tense; Plasticity; Overregularization
Fulltext: 88_02_Marchman.pdf (226.84KB)

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In this study, 22 children with early left hemisphere (LHD) or right hemisphere (RHD) focal brain lesions (FL, n ¼ 14 LHD, n ¼ 8 RHD) were administered an English past tense elicitation test (M ¼ 6:5 years). Proportion correct and frequency of overregularization and zero-marking errors were compared to age-matched samples of children with specific language impairment (SLI, n ¼ 27) and with typical language development (TD, n ¼ 27). Similar rates of correct production and error patterns were observed for the children with TD and FL; whereas, children with SLI produced more zero-marking errors than either their FL or TD peers. Performance was predicted by vocabulary level (PPVT-R) for children in all groups, and errors did not differ as a function of lesion side (LHD vs. RHD). Findings are discussed in terms of the nature of brain–language relations and how those relationships develop over the course of language learning.

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