A current issue in psycholinguistic research is whether the language difficulties exhibited by
children with developmental language disorder [DLD, previously labeled specific language …

● Specific language impairment (SLI) is a disorder of language acquisition in the absence
of intellectual, sensory or gross neurological impairment.● SLI affects 6-8% of preschool …

Successful language use requires the ability to process nonadjacent dependencies (NADs)
that occur in linguistic input. Learning such structural regularities seems therefore crucial for …

Acquiring spoken language involves implicitly learning the statistical relations among
language units. In this chapter, we review recent behavioral and neurophysiological findings …

Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that
impacts approximately 7% of the population and is characterized by unexplained deficits in …

Auditory processing and procedural learning deficits have been associated with language
learning difficulties. We investigated the relationship of these skills and school-age …

Detecting and discriminating subtle and rapid sound changes in the speech environment is
a fundamental prerequisite of language processing, and deficits in this ability have …

Purpose Impairments in statistical learning abilities of individuals with developmental
dyslexia (DD) have been demonstrated in word segmentation and in visual artificial …

From an early age, exposure to a spoken language has allowed us to implicitly capture the
structure underlying the succession of speech sounds in that language and to segment it …

Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up patterns in sensory input, serves as one of the
building blocks of language acquisition. Although SL has been studied extensively in …