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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) affects language acquisition in children.
  • Grammatical gender agreement is a complex linguistic feature.
  • Understanding DLD's impact on processing grammatical features is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate gender agreement sensitivity in Russian-speaking children with DLD.
  • To compare DLD and typically developing children's performance on gender decision tasks.
  • To explore the role of phonological memory in DLD language processing.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using gender decision tasks.
  • Experiment 1 manipulated overt gender agreement.
  • Experiment 2 introduced agreement violations with varied word types.

Main Results:

  • Children with DLD and typically developing children showed comparable reaction times and agreement sensitivity.
  • Feminine gender trials led to higher error rates in both groups.
  • Lower overall accuracy in DLD was associated with phonological memory deficits.

Conclusions:

  • DLD does not impair sensitivity to grammatical gender agreement.
  • Phonological memory significantly influences language task performance in DLD.
  • Findings inform processing and linguistic theories of DLD.