Title |
Electrical Brain Responses in Language-Impaired Children Reveal Grammar-Specific Deficits
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2008
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0001832 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Elisabeth Fonteneau, Heather K. J. van der Lely |
Abstract |
Scientific and public fascination with human language have included intensive scrutiny of language disorders as a new window onto the biological foundations of language and its evolutionary origins. Specific language impairment (SLI), which affects over 7% of children, is one such disorder. SLI has received robust scientific attention, in part because of its recent linkage to a specific gene and loci on chromosomes and in part because of the prevailing question regarding the scope of its language impairment: Does the disorder impact the general ability to segment and process language or a specific ability to compute grammar? Here we provide novel electrophysiological data showing a domain-specific deficit within the grammar of language that has been hitherto undetectable through behavioural data alone. |
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