Citation

Marchman VA, Saccuman C, Wulfeck B. Brain Lang. 2004; 88(2): 202-214.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Academic Press)

DOI

10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00099-3

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this study, 22 children with early left hemisphere (LHD) or right hemisphere (RHD) focal brain lesions (FL, n=14 LHD, n=8 RHD) were administered an English past tense elicitation test (M=6.5 years). Proportion correct and frequency of overregularization and zero-marking errors were compared to age-matched samples of children with specific language impairment (SLI, n=27) and with typical language development (TD, n=27). Similar rates of correct production and error patterns were observed for the children with TD and FL; whereas, children with SLI produced more zero-marking errors than either their FL or TD peers. Performance was predicted by vocabulary level (PPVT-R) for children in all groups, and errors did not differ as a function of lesion side (LHD vs. RHD).

FINDINGS are discussed in terms of the nature of brain-language relations and how those relationships develop over the course of language learning.

Language: en