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    Past tense in children with focal brain lesions

    Konstantinopoulou, Paul and Stavrakaki, S. and Manouilidou, C. and Zafeiriou, D. (2013) Past tense in children with focal brain lesions. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 94 , pp. 196-197. ISSN 1877-0428.

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    Abstract

    In this study, 22 children with early left hemisphere (LHD) or right hemisphere (RHD) focal brain lesions (FL, n ¼ 14 LHD, n ¼ 8 RHD) were administered an English past tense elicitation test (M ¼ 6:5 years). Proportion correct and frequency of overregularization and zero-marking errors were compared to age-matched samples of children with specific language impairment (SLI, n ¼ 27) and with typical language development (TD, n ¼ 27). Similar rates of correct production and error patterns were observed for the children with TD and FL; whereas, children with SLI produced more zero-marking errors than either their FL or TD peers. Performance was predicted by vocabulary level (PPVT-R) for children in all groups, and errors did not differ as a function of lesion side (LHD vs. RHD). Findings are discussed in terms of the nature of brain–language relations and how those relationships develop over the course of language learning.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: 51st Academy of Aphasia Proceedings
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Specific language impairment, Focal brain injury, Morphology, English past tense, Plasticity, Overregularization
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2013 13:53
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:34
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/8764

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