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Sentence Comprehension Deficits of Specific Language Impairment (Montgomery et al., 2016) ...
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Purpose: Compared with same-age typically developing peers, school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) exhibit significant deficits in spoken sentence comprehension. They also demonstrate a range of memory limitations. Whether these 2 deficit areas are related is unclear. The present review article aims to (a) review 2 main theoretical accounts of SLI sentence comprehension and various studies supporting each and (b) offer a new, broader, more integrated memory-based framework to guide future SLI research, as we believe the available evidence favors a memory-based perspective of SLI comprehension limitations. Method: We reviewed the literature on the sentence comprehension abilities of English-speaking children with SLI from 2 theoretical perspectives. Results: The sentence comprehension limitations of children with SLI appear to be more fully captured by a memory-based perspective than by a syntax-specific deficit perspective. Conclusions: Although a memory-based view appears to be the ...
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Child language acquisition; Natural language processing
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URL: https://asha.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Sentence_Comprehension_Deficits_of_Specific_Language_Impairment_Montgomery_et_al_2016_/14963949/1
https://dx.doi.org/10.23641/asha.14963949.v1
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