Impaired Statistical Learning of Nonadjacent Dependencies in Adolescents with Specific Language Impairment

Being able to track dependencies between syntactic elements separated by other constituents is crucial for language acquisition and processing (e.g., in subject-noun/verb agreement). Although long assumed to require language-specific machinery, research on statistical learning has suggested that dom...

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Main Authors: Hsinjen Julie eHsu, J Bruce eTomblin, Morten H Christiansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00175/full