Individual Differences in Verb Bias Sensitivity in Children and Adults With Developmental Language Disorder.

ABSTRACT: A number of experiments support the hypothetical utility of statistical information for language learning and processing among both children and adults. However, tasks in these studies are often very general, and only a few include populations with developmental language disorder (DLD). We wanted to determine whether a stronger relationship might be shown when the measure of statistical learning is chosen for its relevance to the language task when including a substantial number of participants with DLD. The language ability we measured was sensitivity to verb bias - the likelihood of a verb to appear with a certain argument or interpretation. A previous study showed adults with DLD were less sensitive to verb bias than their typical peers. Verb bias sensitivity had not yet been tested in

SUBMITTER: Hall JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6877742 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature