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Syntactic processing in children with typical language development and children with Specific Language Impairment

The hypothesis about the "agrammatical comprehension" in children with SLI was tested using the event related potentials (ERP). In difference to other experiments in which semantics related ERP components were obtained where syntactic related components were expected, in this study dissociation between two different aspects of syntactic processing was obtained in the adult control group and in the group of children with typical language development. In the group of children with SLI the dissociation was not observed. The results were interpreted in terms of maturational processes that lead to greater specialization of functions in typically developing brain. The absence of the dissociation in the group of children with SLI indicates that these developmental processes are disrupted and that they process language data with using compensatory strategies.

SLI; ERP; syntactic processing; sentence comprehension; Role & Reference Grammar

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