Short-Term Memory, Working Memory and Linguistic Abilities in Bilingual Children with Developmental Language Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Talli, Ioanna; Stavrakaki, Stavroula
Titel	Short-Term Memory, Working Memory and Linguistic Abilities in Bilingual Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Quelle	In: First Language, 40 (2020) 4, S.437-460 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Stavrakaki, Stavroula)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723719886954
Schlagwörter	Short Term Memory; Verbal Ability; Syntax; Language Impairments; Monolingualism; Bilingualism; Receptive Language; Vocabulary Development; Predictor Variables; Comparative Analysis; Phrase Structure; Russian; Indo European Languages; Greek; Native Language; Second Language Learning; Parent Attitudes; Clinical Diagnosis; Children; Intelligence Tests; Language Tests; Task Analysis; Foreign Countries; Greece; Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children; Raven Progressive Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Mündliche Leistung; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Bilingualismus; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Wortschatzarbeit; Prädiktor; Phrasenstruktur; Russisch; Indoeuropäisch; Grieche; Griechisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Elternverhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Language test; Sprachtest; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausland; Griechenland
Abstract	This article investigates verbal short-term memory (vSTM) and verbal working memory (vWM) abilities and their relation to lexical and syntactic abilities in monolingual (mono-) and bilingual (bi-) children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and typical development (TD). The authors employed the following tasks: vSTM (non-word repetition and forward digit span), vWM (backward digit span), receptive vocabulary, syntactic production (sentence repetition) and syntactic comprehension (relative clauses, reflexives and passives). While the mono- and bi-DLD groups underperformed the mono- and bi-TD groups respectively in all tasks, the two clinical groups differed only in receptive vocabulary. vSTM was a significant predictor of syntactic performance for both monolinguals and bilinguals, while vWM was a significant predictor of syntactic performance only for bilinguals. These findings suggest that impairments in vSTM, wVM and syntax are core clinical features in DLD, and that vWM makes a greater contribution to syntax in bilinguals than in monolinguals. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01