Number agreement processing in adolescents with and without developmental language disorder (DLD): evidence from event-related brain potentials.

ABSTRACT: In morphologically richer languages, including French, one must learn the specific properties of number agreement in order to understand the language, and this learning process continues into adolescence. This study examined similarities and differences between French-speaking adolescents with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) when processing number agreement, and investigated how morpho-syntactic regularity affected language processing. Using event-related potentials (ERP) and only grammatical sentences with audio-visual mismatches, we studied ERP correlates to three types of number agreement: (1) regular determiner agreement in noun phrases, (2) regular subject-verb plural liaison, and (3) irregular subject-verb agreement. We also included a lexico-semantic mismatch condi

SUBMITTER: Courteau E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10739941 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature