Comprehension of inferences in discourse processing by adolescents with and without language impairment

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1268-1279

  Karasinski, Courtney ^a   Weismer, Susan Ellis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Inference; Specific language impairment; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; REFERENCE VALUES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77957583278     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/09-0006)     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Bishop, D. V. M., & Adams, C. (1992). Comprehension problems in children with specific language impairment: Literal and inferential meaning. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35, 119-129.
2. Cain, K., Oakhill, J. V., & Bryant, P. E. (2001). Children's reading comprehension ability: Concurrent prediction by working memory, verbal ability, and component skills. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 31-42.
3. Catts, H. W., Adolf, S. M., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2006). Language deficits in poor comprehenders: A case for the simple view of reading. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 278-293.
4. Crais, E. R., & Chapman, R. S. (1987). Story recall and inferencing skills in language/learning-disabled and nondisabled children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 52, 50-55.
5. Dollaghan, C. A., & Campbell, T. F. (1998). Nonword repetition and child language impairment. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 52, 1136-1146.
6. Dunn, L. M., & Dunn, L. M. (1981). Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised. Circle Pines, MN: AGS.
7. Ellis Weismer, S. (1985). Constructive comprehension abilities exhibited by language-disordered children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 28, 175-184.
8. Ellis Weismer, S. (2006, June). Examining the role of processing limitations in specific language impairment. Keynote lecture presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
9. Ellis Weismer, S., Evans, J., & Hesketh, L. J. (1999). An examination of verbal working memory capacity in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42, 1249-1260.
10. Ellis Weismer, S., Plante, E., Jones, M., & Tomblin, J. B. (2005). A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of verbal working memory in adolescents with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 405-425.
11. Fey, M., Catts, H., Proctor-Willams, K., Tomblin, J. B., & Zhang, X. (2004). Oral and written story composition skills of children with language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 1301-1318.
12. Gaulin, C., & Campbell, T. (1994). Procedure for assessing verbal working memory in normal school-age children: Some preliminary data. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79, 55-64.
13. Humphries, T., Cardy, J. O., Worling, D. E., & Peets, K. (2004). Narrative comprehension and retelling abilities of children with nonverbal learning disabilities. Brain and Cognition, 56, 77-88.
14. Just, M. A., & Carpenter, P. A. (1992). A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory. Psychological Review, 99, 122-149.
15. Kertoy, M. K., & Goetz, K. M. (1995). The relationship between listening performance on the sentence verification technique and other measures of listening comprehension. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 20, 320-339.
16. Kintsch, W. (1988). The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension: A construction integration model. Psychological Review, 95, 163-182.
17. Lea, R. B., Mulligan, E. J., & Walton, J. L. (2005). Accessing distant premise information: How memory feeds reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 387-395.
18. Leslie, L., & Caldwell, J. (2001). Qualitative Reading Inventory-3. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
19. MacDonald, M. C., & Christiansen, M. H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996). Psychological Review, 109, 35-54.
20. Mainela-Arnold, E., & Evans, J. (2005). Beyond capacity limitations: Determinants of word recall performance on verbal working memory span tasks in children with SLI. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 897-909.
21. Marton, K., & Schwartz, R. G. (2003). Working memory capacity and language processes in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46, 1138-1153.
22. Montgomery, J. (2002). Understanding the language difficulties of children with specific language impairments: Does verbal working memory matter? American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 11, 77-91.
23. Montgomery, J., & Evans, J. (2009). Complex sentence comprehension and working memory in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52, 269-288.
24. Moran, C., & Gillon, G. (2005). Inference comprehension of adolescents with traumatic brain injury: Aworking memory hypothesis. Brain Injury, 19, 743-751.
25. Nation, K., Clarke, P., Marshall, C. M., & Durand, M. (2004). Hidden language impairments in children: Parallels between poor reading comprehension and specific language impairment? Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 47, 199-211.
26. Russell, J., Jarrold, C., & Henry, L. (1996). Working memory in children with autism and moderate learning disabilities. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 37, 673-686.
27. Semel, E., Wiig, E., & Secord, W. (1995). Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation.
28. Snyder, L. S., & Downey, D. M. (1991). The languagereading relationship in normal and reading-disabled children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 34, 129-140.
29. Tomblin, J. B., Records, N. L., Buckwalter, P., Zhang, X., Smith, E., & O'Brien, M. (1997). Prevalence of specific language impairment in kindergarten children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40, 1245-1260.
30. Tomblin, J. B., Records, N. L., & Zhang, X. (1996). A system for the diagnosis of specific language impairment in kindergarten children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 39, 1284-1294.
31. Virtue, S., Haberman, J., Clancy, Z., Parrish, T., & Beeman, M. (2006). Neural activity of inferences during story comprehension. Brain Research, 1084, 104-114.
32. Virtue, S., & van den Broek, P. (2004). Hemispheric processing of anaphoric inferences: The activation of multiple antecedents. Brain and Language, 93, 327-337.
33. Virtue, S., van den Broek, P., & Linderholm, T. (2006). Hemispheric processing of inferences: The effects of textual constraint and working memory capacity. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1341-1355.
34. Wallace, G., & Hammill, D. (1994). Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.
35. Wechsler, D. (1991). Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children-III. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation.
36. Woodcock, R., McGrew, K., & Mather, N. (2001). Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery-III. Itasca, IL: Riverside.
37. Worling, D. E., Humphries, T., & Tannock, R. (1999). Spatial and emotional aspects of language inferencing in nonverbal learning disabilities. Brain and Language, 70, 220-239.
38. Yuill, N., Oakhill, J., & Parkin, A. (1989). Working memory, comprehension ability and the resolution of text anomaly. British Journal of Psychology, 80, 351-361.