A Bayesian analysis of subject relative production in SLI children during syntactic priming and sentence repetition

Coco, Moreno, Garraffa, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1767-424X and Branigan, Holly P. (2012) A Bayesian analysis of subject relative production in SLI children during syntactic priming and sentence repetition. In: 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, pp. 228-233. ISBN 9781622763047

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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 unsuper-vised 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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	30 Jul 2021 23:40
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 03:47
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80926
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