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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is often theorized to stem from non-linguistic cognitive limitations, particularly in working memory.
  • Understanding the interplay between working memory and language processing is crucial for effective DLD interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between working memory capacity and the ability to process complex sentences in children with DLD.
  • To compare the performance of children with DLD and typically developing children on memory and complex sentence tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Evaluated 28 French-speaking children with DLD and 48 typically developing children (ages 5-14).
  • Administered memory tasks (assessing simple and complex spans) and linguistic tasks focusing on complex sentence comprehension and repetition.
  • Analyzed spontaneous language samples for syntactic complexity.

Main Results:

  • A significant predictive relationship was found between working memory and complex sentence comprehension/repetition in both groups.
  • In typically developing children, complex working memory spans predicted syntactic measures in spontaneous language.
  • In children with DLD, simple working memory spans were predictive of spontaneous language syntactic measures.

Conclusions:

  • A robust connection exists between working memory and syntactic complexity in children.
  • Findings suggest distinct working memory contributions to language processing in DLD, with implications for targeted therapeutic strategies.