Syntactic complexity in the comprehension of wh-questions and relative clauses in typical language development and autism

S Durrleman, T Marinis, J Franck - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This study investigates effects of syntactic complexity operationalized in terms of movement,
intervention, and noun phrase (NP) feature similarity in the development of Aʹ …

[HTML][HTML] Stages rather than ages in the acquisition of movement structures: Data from sentence repetition and 27696 spontaneous clauses

N Friedmann, J Reznick - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 - glossa-journal.org
This study explored the order of acquisition of various types of syntactic-movement and
embedding structures in Hebrew, using a sentence-repetition task, in which 60 children …

A deficit in movement-derived sentences in German-speaking hearing-impaired children

E Ruigendijk, N Friedmann - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Children with hearing impairment (HI) show disorders in syntax and morphology. The
question is whether and how these disorders are connected to problems in the auditory …

What machine learning can tell us about the role of language dominance in the diagnostic accuracy of German LITMUS non-word and sentence repetition tasks

L Abed Ibrahim, I Fekete - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The present study investigates the performance of 21 monolingual and 56 bilingual children
aged 5; 6–9; 0 on German LITMUS-sentence-repetition (SRT;) and non-word-repetition …

Coconuts and curtain cakes: The production of wh-questions in ASD

N Sukenik, E Morin, N Friedmann… - Autism & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and aims Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been found to
exhibit difficulties in wh-question production. It is unclear whether these difficulties are …

Relative clause reading in hearing impairment: different profiles of syntactic impairment

R Szterman, N Friedmann - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Children with hearing impairment show difficulties in sentences derived by Wh-movement,
such as relative clauses and Wh-questions. This study examines the nature of this deficit in …

[HTML][HTML] A Comparative Study Across Methods to Identify Adolescents with Syntactic Specific Language Impairment

HY Jong, AR Rozaida, JM Abdullah… - … Malaysian Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Specific language impairment (SLI) is described as a heterogeneous deficit that
causes difficulties in various aspects of language. We performed a comparative study of two …