title: Auditory verb recognition in developmental language impairment.
abstract: This research addresses the issues of frequency and regularity in auditory verb recognition and their importance for the organization of the mental lexicon in DLI francophones. A primed auditory lexical decision task probes reaction times and response accuracy in DLI and control participants on frequent and infrequent, and regular and irregular, inflected forms of verbs. Results show no priming for inflectionally related forms as well as strong frequency effects in DLI participants. These findings lend additional support to the hypothesis that developmental language impairment is a deficit in lexical representation.
authors.affiliation: Université de Montréal and Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. phaedra.royle@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Phaedra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Royle
authors.forename: Gonia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jarema
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kehayia
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014825:Vocabulary