Working memory and comprehension of spoken sentences: investigations of children with reading disorder.
| Number | 783 |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Drawer | 14 |
| Entry Date | 11/08/1999 |
| Authors | Crain, S., Shankweiler, D., Macaruso, P., & Bar-Shalom, E. |
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| Publication | In Vallar, G. and Shallice, T. (eds.), Neuropsychological impariments of short-term memory. Cambridge University Press. (pp.477-507). |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0783.pdf |
| Abstract | [Introduction] Our goal is to investigate the role of the verbal working memory system in sentence comprehension, by presenting a model of working memory in sufficient detail to allow specific predictions to be made and tested / in testing this account, we draw on experimental methods that haverecently been used in research on language development / these methods are designed to control the various sources of potential difficulty in the standard laboratory tasks used to assess children's grammatical knowledge and their use of this knowledge in sentence comprehension / we illustrate how our proposals about working memory, together with recent innovations in method, allows us to infer that abnormal limitations in phonological processing, and not absence of grammatical knowledge, are the root of the difficulties in spoken sentence understanding that are apparent in children with reading disability since reading problems are most transparent at the beginning stages of learning to read, we focus our attention there by investigating the linguistic abilities of poor readers in the early school years / our research compares performance by these children with age-matched controls--children who are proceeding at the expected rate in the acquisition of reading skills. |
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