PMID- 20798326
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110325
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1558-9102 (Electronic)
IS  - 1092-4388 (Linking)
VI  - 53
IP  - 6
DP  - 2010 Dec
TI  - Spoken word recognition in school-age children with SLI: semantic, phonological, 
      and repetition priming.
PG  - 1616-28
LID - 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0042) [doi]
AB  - PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the current understanding 
      of how children with specific language impairment (SLI) organize their mental 
      lexicons. The study examined semantic and phonological priming in children with 
      and without SLI. METHOD: Thirteen children (7;0-11;3 [years;months]) with SLI and 
      13 age-matched children with typical language development participated in this 
      study. Prime-target pairs (semantic, phonological, and repetition) were embedded 
      within a running list of words so that the actual pairs were imperceptible. 
      Reaction times to an animacy judgment (alive vs. not alive) were analyzed. The 
      experiment featured 500-ms and 1,000-ms interstimulus intervals (ISIs) between 
      primes and targets. RESULTS: Children with SLI exhibited priming effects in the 
      repetition condition at both ISIs; however, phonological and semantic effects 
      were absent. Typically developing children exhibited effects in the repetition at 
      both ISIs. Semantic and phonological effects were absent at 500 ms ISIs, but 
      present at 1,000 ms ISIs. CONCLUSIONS: Although children with SLI have priming 
      mechanisms similar to those of their age-matched peers, the absence of semantic 
      and phonological priming suggests that these connections are not strong enough by 
      themselves to yield priming effects. These findings are discussed in the context 
      of semantic and phonological priming, representation, and generalized slowing.
FAU - Velez, Melinda
AU  - Velez M
AD  - Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, The City University of New York, 
      The Graduate School and University Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7400, New York, 
      NY 10016-4309, USA. melindavelez@gmail.com
FAU - Schwartz, Richard G
AU  - Schwartz RG
LA  - eng
GR  - R01-DC003885/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
DEP - 20100826
PL  - United States
TA  - J Speech Lang Hear Res
JT  - Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
JID - 9705610
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - *Child Language
MH  - *Cues
MH  - Humans
MH  - Language Development Disorders/*physiopathology
MH  - *Linguistics
MH  - Phonetics
MH  - Reaction Time/physiology
MH  - Recognition, Psychology/*physiology
MH  - Semantics
MH  - Speech Perception/physiology
MH  - Vocabulary
EDAT- 2010/08/28 06:00
MHDA- 2011/03/26 06:00
CRDT- 2010/08/28 06:00
PHST- 2010/08/28 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/08/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/03/26 06:00 [medline]
AID - 1092-4388_2010_09-0042 [pii]
AID - 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0042) [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2010 Dec;53(6):1616-28. doi: 
      10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0042). Epub 2010 Aug 26.