Subject Relative Production in SLI Children during Syntactic Priming and Sentence Repetition

Coco, Moreno I., Garraffa, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1767-424X and Branigan, Holly P. (2012) Subject Relative Production in SLI Children during Syntactic Priming and Sentence Repetition. In: Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012. Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012 . The Cognitive Science Society, JPN, pp. 228-233. ISBN 9780976831884

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Abstract

Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLIC) experience difficulties in processing Subject relative clauses (SRC). This has been interpreted as evidence that they lack syntactic representations for SRC. Our study investigates the spontaneous production of SRC in typically developing children (TDC) and SLIC in a structural priming paradigm, and compares their performance in a sentence repetition task. We demonstrate that SLIC are much more likely to produce SRC during priming than in sentence repetition; moreover, when primed, their performance matches TDC’s baseline (unprimed) performance. Furthermore, we design two simple unsupervised Bayesian models, and predict the developmental group (SLI, TD) and priming condition (Primed, Non-Primed). Overall, this study shows that SLIC can spontaneously produce SRC when primed, suggesting their impairment is related to working memory, rather than a deficit in syntactic knowledge.

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Uncontrolled Keywords:	bayesian data analysis,language development,sentence repetition,specific language impairment,syntactic priming,artificial intelligence,computer science applications,human-computer interaction,cognitive neuroscience ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1702
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
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Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2026 09:46
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2026 09:57
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103689
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