Children with specific language impairment: The role of prosodic processes in explaining difficulties in processing syntactic information

Brain Research

Volumn 1261, Issue , 2009, Pages 37-44

  Sabisch, Beate ^a,b   Hahne, CA Anja ^a   Glass, Elisabeth ^b   von Suchodoletz, Waldemar ^b   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comprehension; ERP; Language; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSODIC PROCESSING; SCHOOL CHILD; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH;

EID: 61549099323     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

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