32.833, Books: Detecting patterns: Lammertink

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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:42:09
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Detecting patterns: Lammertink

 


Title: Detecting patterns 
Subtitle: Relating statistical learning to language proficiency in children with and
without developmental language disorder 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/detecting-patterns-relating-statistical-learning-to-language-proficiency-in-children-with-and-without-developmental-language-disorder 


Author: Imme Lisa Lammertink

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933523 Pages: 265 Price: Europe EURO 34


Abstract:

It is still unclear why children diagnosed with developmental language
disorder (DLD) experience so many difficulties acquiring their native
language. The research described in this dissertation investigated whether
differences in the ease with which children acquire language are related to
children’s sensitivity to statistical regularities (i.e. statistical learning)
in the input. The following questions were addressed: (1) can we detect
differences in statistical learning at the group and individual level (this
concerns the measurement of statistical learning), (2) are individual
differences in statistical learning associated with language proficiency and
(3) can the language difficulties observed in children with DLD be explained
by a statistical learning deficit that is observable across modalities,
domains and dependency types?

With four empirical studies and two meta-analyses we aimed to answer these
questions. Using online and offline measures of learning, we found evidence
for statistical learning at the group level. Using these measures, we could
not detect learning at the individual level (question 1). This means that we
cannot draw a conclusion as to whether individual differences in statistical
learning do (or do not) correlate with linguistic proficiency (question 2). As
for our third question: our results indicate that children with DLD have an
auditory verbal statistical learning deficit. We cannot conclude that they
have (or do not have) a statistical learning deficit outside this domain. The
presence of a statistical learning deficit in children with DLD may thus
depend on several factors, including the domain and modality in which learning
is tested.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition


Written In: English  (eng)

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