Chapter 9. Syntactic priming as a window to investigate grammatical learning in non-typical populations

Garraffa, Maria; Smith, Giuditta

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“…Other methodologies that are known to be useful to investigate grammatical abilities are virtually absent from this scoping review. These include sentence repetition and syntactic priming (Rujas et al 2021;Garraffa and Smith 2022).…”

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Grammar in Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review from the Last 10 Years

Smith,

Janetti,

Sarin

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Little is known of the trajectory of grammar in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) once adulthood and language maturity are reached. Yet, impairments in grammar are reported in children with both communication NDDs, such as Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), and other NDDs, including ASD and ADHD. In the present study, we review studies collected in the last ten years on the grammar of adults with NDDs. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines were applied. Included studies assessed sentence-level grammatical abilities through quantitative experiments on adults with a diagnosis of a developmental disorder. Out of 1550 contributions, 29 were selected. The studies included in the review showed that individuals with NDDs show a language deficit when compared to healthy adults. However, a lack of a unified approach to investigations of grammar prevents comparisons on the nature of the language disorder across NDDs, consequently highlighting the existence of a gap in knowledge. This gap must be filled to the benefit of speech pathologists and, ultimately, their patients.

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Grammar in Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review from the Last 10 Years

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Janetti,

Sarin

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Structural Priming in the Grammatical Network

Ungerer¹

2023

Constructional Approaches to Language

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This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network. To explore the organisation of this network, the author examines evidence from structural priming, which occurs when speakers’ processing of a grammatical construction is affected by prior exposure to the same or a similar construction. Previous experimental findings are innovatively reinterpreted to shed light on various aspects of the grammatical network, including the strength of the similarities between constructions, the level of abstraction at which they are represented and the ways in which similar constructions can either boost or inhibit each other. Moreover, new experiments are reported that extend structural priming to phenomena like the resultative, the depictive and the caused-motion construction. The book is directed at theoretical linguists, psycholinguists and cognitive psychologists alike, showcasing how recent work in these areas can be integrated and extended.

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Chapter 9. Syntactic priming as a window to investigate grammatical learning in non-typical populations

Cited by 4 publications

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Grammar in Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review from the Last 10 Years

Grammar in Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review from the Last 10 Years

Constructional Approaches to Language

Structural Priming in the Grammatical Network

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