This paper examines the role of age, working memory span and phonological ability in the
mastery of ten different grammatical constructions. Six-through eleven-year-old children (n …

Purpose The authors explored the cognitive mechanisms involved in language processing
by systematically examining the performance of children with deficits in the domains of …

Memory and language operate in synergy. Recent literature stresses the importance of
memory functioning in interpreting language deficits. Two groups of 50 children each, ages …

Background Procedural memory has been proposed to underlie the acquisition of a range of
skills including grammar, reading, and motor skills. In developmental language disorder …

Background Both children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and children with specific
language impairment (SLI) have been shown to have difficulties with grammatical …

Grammaticality judgments and decision times for two age groups of normally developing
children were studied to determine when parsing decisions are made and how linguistic …

Background: Existing evidence suggests that young children with specific language
impairment have unusual difficulty in detecting omissions of obligatory tense‐marking …

Purpose: To gain a better understanding of the cognitive processes supporting verbal
abilities, the underlying structure and interrelationships between common verbal measures …

There have been few investigations of the effects of very immature preterm birth on specific
linguistic competencies and phonological working memory at preschool age. Study 1 aimed …

It is likely that tests of phonological short‐term memory (non‐word repetition) and
grammatical morphology (past tense, third‐person singular) are clinical markers for specific …