Image complexity in the tracking of DLD
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0011/000553Keywords:
Relative clauses, Image complexity, Executive functions, ReversibilityAbstract
Image complexity in a picture-identification task (PI-task) is shown to affect children’s comprehension of relative clauses (RCs), object RCs in particular. Images depicting reversible thematic relations led to more errors than non-reversible images for 5-7-year-olds. Schoolchildren identified as at risk of Developmental Language Disorder had poorer performance than their age-matched controls in the comprehension of RCs and which-questions, particularly in object sentences with complex images. Results of a correlation between children's scores on a language assessment test by means of a PI-task and two non-verbal inhibitory control tasks suggest that low inhibitory capacity makes it more difficult for children at risk of DLD to cope with costly sentences.
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