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ArticleScientific reports2023

Number agreement processing in adolescents with and without developmental language disorder (DLD): evidence from event-related brain potentials.

Émilie Courteau, Phaedra Royle, Karsten Steinhauer

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Émilie CourteauSchool of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada. emilie.courteau@umontreal.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-6264-5080
Phaedra RoyleSchool of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Karsten SteinhauerCentre for Research On Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7034-4082
Centre for Research on Brain Language and Music · CADalhousie University · CA

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Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Société et Culture (FRQSC) 2016-SE-188196Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Société et Culture (FRQSC) Doctoral ScholarshipGouvernement du Canada | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada) 435-2015-1280Gouvernement du Canada | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada) Doctoral Scholarship
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Abstract

In morphologically richer languages, including French, one must learn the specific properties of number agreement in order to understand the language, and this learning process continues into adolescence. This study examined similarities and differences between French-speaking adolescents with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) when processing number agreement, and investigated how morpho-syntactic regularity affected language processing. Using event-related potentials (ERP) and only grammatical sentences with audio-visual mismatches, we studied ERP correlates to three types of number agreement: (1) regular determiner agreement in noun phrases, (2) regular subject-verb plural liaison, and (3) irregular subject-verb agreement. We also included a lexico-semantic mismatch condition to investigate lexico-semantic processing in our participants. 17 adolescents with DLD (M = 14.1 years) and 20 (pre)teens with typical language (TL, M = 12.2 years) participated in the study. Our results suggest three patterns. First, French-speaking teenagers without DLD are still consolidating their neurocognitive processing of morpho-syntactic number agreement and generally display ERP profiles typical of lower language proficiency than adult native speakers. Second, differences in morphosyntactic processing between teenagers with and without DLD seem to be limited to rule-based (regular) number agreement. Third, there is little evidence for corresponding differences in lexico-semantic processing.

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ElectroencephalographyLanguage Development DisordersAdolescentAdultBrainEvoked PotentialsHumansLanguage

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