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ArticleJournal of child language2025

Predictors of sentence recall performance in children with and without DLD: Complexity matters.

Janet L McDonald, Janna B Oetting

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Janet L McDonaldDepartment of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1023-9715
Janna B OettingDepartment of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

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Tense and Agreement in SAAE and SWE by Dialect Density and SLI StatusR01DC009811 · NIDCD · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · PI OETTING, JANNA B · 2009 to 2013
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NIDCD NIH HHS NIDCD RO1DC009811NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009811
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using archival data from 106 children with and without DLD who spoke two dialects of English, we examined the independent contributions of vocabulary, morphological ability, phonological short term memory (pSTM), and verbal working memory (WM) to exact sentence recall, ungrammatical repetition, and incorrect tense production. For exact repetitions on simpler sentences, performance of the DLD group was predicted by morphological ability, pSTM and WM, while that of the TD group was predicted by vocabulary and sometimes pSTM. On complex sentences, performance of the DLD group was predicted by morphological ability, and the TD group was predicted by pSTM and WM. For ungrammatical repetitions and incorrect tense, morphological ability was a factor for both groups, with WM also affecting the DLD group for ungrammatical production. Thus, sentence recall taxes multiple resources, with more and different factors being taxed at lower levels of complexity for children with DLD than those without.

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Child LanguageLanguage Development DisordersMental RecallChildFemaleHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermPhoneticsVocabularyDevelopmental language delaymorphologynonword repetitionsentence recallworking memory

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PMID39410802
PMCPMC13268681

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