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Magali Krzemien1, Christelle Maillart1, Christophe Parisse2
1Department of Psychology, Speech Language Therapy and Educational Sciences Research Unit on Childhood, Liege, Belgium.
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
|December 12, 2018
Summary
Children with developmental language disorders (DLD) struggle with analogical mapping, particularly when visual cues are absent. This difficulty may explain their challenges in language development and creativity.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Developmental Psychology
- Linguistics
Background:
- Analogical mapping is crucial for language development and abstracting linguistic patterns.
- Children with developmental language disorders (DLD) often show reduced linguistic productivity and creativity.
- This may stem from difficulties in generalizing linguistic structures.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate analogical mapping abilities in children with DLD.
- To examine the impact of processing load on analogical mapping in children with DLD.
- To explore how processing load influences creativity in children with DLD.
Main Methods:
- A visual analogical reasoning task was administered to 15 children with DLD and 15 typically developing peers.
- Two factors manipulating processing load were tested: presentation modality (sequential vs. simultaneous) and perceptual support (present vs. absent).
Main Results:
- Children with DLD performed significantly worse than typically developing children, confirming impaired analogical mapping.
- Analogical mapping difficulties were more pronounced in children with DLD when perceptual support was lacking.
- Processing load effects were mixed; sequential presentation did not disproportionately affect children with DLD.
Conclusions:
- Impaired analogical mapping, especially without perceptual cues, may underlie difficulties in schema abstraction for children with DLD.
- This cognitive deficit could explain reduced linguistic productivity and creativity in children with DLD.
- Further research is needed to confirm the directionality of the relationship between analogical reasoning and language development.
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