Specific Language Impairment

Name: Specific Language Impairment | Current trends in research
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Current trends in research

Stavroula Stavrakaki(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 11. August 2015

IX, 317 Seiten

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Specific Language Impairment
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction
References
The genetics of Specific Language Impairment
Basic concepts in genetics
Investigating the heritability of SLI
Methods in human genetics
Linkage on chromosomes 16 and 19
Further evidence for the linkage region on chromosomes 16 and 19
A targeted association study of chromosome 16
Extended-pedigree studies
Further evidence for linkage to chromosome 13
Robinson Crusoe Island study
A comparison between the different linkage studies of SLI
Comorbidity of SLI with other neurodevelopmental disorders
Genetic overlaps between SLI and autism
Genetic overlap between SLI and ADHD
Copy Number Variants (CNVs)
Genetic pathways
FOXP2 and CNTNAP2
Genome-wide association investigations into the genetics of SLI
Conclusions
References
Language disorders in children with Developmental Dyslexia
1. Introduction
2. Aims of this study
3. The problems
4. Study 1: Relative clauses
4.1 Participants
4.2 Material and methods
4.3 Scoring
4.4 Results
5. Study 2: Wh-questions
5.1 Participants
5.2 Material and methods
5.3 Scoring
5.4 Results
6. Discussion
References
Is there an overlap between Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia? New insights from French
Introduction
Review of the literature
The present study
Method
Participants
Tasks
Procedure
Results
Group study
Multiple-case study: Prevalence of the different deficits
General discussion
Phonological STM, phonemic awareness, and RAN in DD and SLI
Word-level reading skills, reading versus listening comprehension, and oral expression
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
Comparing SLI and dyslexia: Developmental language profiles and reading outcomes
Introduction
Methods
Participants
Measures at preschool age: Inflection and mispronunciation detection
Literacy and language measures at age 8
Results
Preschool morphosyntactic and phonological measures
Literacy outcomes at age 8
Language profiles at age 8
Preschool language related to literacy and language at age 8
Case series analysis
Discussion
References
Specific Language Impairment (SLI): is not specific enough Sub-types of SLI and their implications for the theory of the disorder
1. Introduction
2. Many markers for SLI
3. Dissociation between language domains
4. Same sub-types of SLI and autism
5. Summary and implications for the theory of SLI
References
Memory profiles of children with SLI
An introduction to what we know about SLI
Research on memory deficits in SLI
Comorbid SLI and ADHD
Comparing memory in late talkers later identified as SLI and resolved late talkers
Concluding remarks
References
The relationship between SLI in English and Modern Greek: Insights from computational models of lang
Introduction
Cross-linguistic differences between English and Modern Greek
Inflectional Morphology
Syntax
Target empirical phenomena for SLI in English and Modern Greek
Inflectional morphology
Syntactic comprehension
Syntactic production
Theoretical accounts of SLI
Previous computational models of SLI
Modelling Inflectional Morphology
Modelling Syntactic Comprehension
Modelling Syntactic Production
Discussion
Common form of the three models
Combining results from the simulation of SLI
Acknowledgements
References
Null subjects in monolingual and bilingual, typical and atypical development: An exploratory study
Introduction
Method
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Universal quantification in Catalan SLI
1. Background
2. Two new experiments on universal quantification
2.1 Subjects
2.2 Procedure
2.3 Experiment 1
2.4 Experiment 2
3. Results
3.1 Experiment 1: Results
3.2 Experiment 2: Results
3.3 Individual results
4. The acquisition of quantification in SLI in other languages
5. Conclusions
References
Appendix 1: Items, Experiment 1
Appendix 2: Items, Experiment 2
Specific Language Impairment in German speaking children
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1 An overview of the morpho-syntax of German
2.2 Typical development in German
3. Morpho-syntactic phenomena observed in German children with SLI
3.1 Overview
3.2 Subject verb agreement in German SLI and the Agreement Deficit Hypothesis
3.3 The EOI account for German
3.4 Adding questions and subordination to the picture: The Minimal Default Account
3.5 Verbal agreement, infinitives, verb placement, and computational complexity
4. Semantic markers of SLI
4.1 Building a lexicon
4.2 Verb learning: Syntactic and semantic bootstrapping
4.3 Compositional semantics and the search for cross-linguistic markers
5. Concluding remarks and future research directions
References
The acquisition of past tense by Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment The role of phonological saliency, regularity, and frequency
1. Introduction
2. Past tense in Greek
2.1 Theoretical background
2.2 Experimental studies
3. The study
3.1 Participants
3.2 Materials-procedure
3.3 Coding
3.4 Results
4. Discussion
References
Appendix I
Part A
Part B
Appendix II
Theory motivated therapy studies of SLI
Domain-specific approaches
Auditory temporal processing
Phonological processing
Morphosyntactic processing
Semantic processing
Domain-general approaches
Recruitment of related processes
The learning context
Manner of presentation
Timing issues
Treatment environment
Agent of treatment
Summary and conclusions
References
Subject index
Subject index

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