Structural Relationship Between Cognitive Processing and Syntactic Sentence Comprehension in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We assessed the potential direct and indirect (mediated) influences of 4 cognitive mechanisms we believe are theoretically relevant to canonical and noncanonical sentence comprehension of school-age children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD).

Method

One hundred seventeen children with DLD and 117 propensity-matched typically developing (TD) children participated. Comprehension was indexed by children identifying the agent in implausible sentences. Children completed cognitive tasks indexing the latent predictors of fluid reasoning (FLD-R), controlled attention (CATT), complex working memory (cWM), and long-term memory language knowledge (LTM-LK).

Results

Structural equation modeling revealed that the best model fit was an indirect model in

SUBMITTER: Montgomery JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440308 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature