This study compared how lexical quality (vocabulary and decoding) and executive control (working memory and inhibition) predict reading comprehension directly as well as indirectly, via syntactic integration, in monolingual and bilingual fourth grade children. The participants were 76 monolingual and 102 bilingual children (mean age 10 years, SD = 5 months) learning to read Dutch in the Netherl...

This report is concerned with the sources of language a lack of systematic work on the possible effects of landevelopment in the child. We have found a substantial guage input on vocabulary size. Clearly, however, vocabrelation between naturally occurring variations in ulary has to be learned, and attaining a large vocabuchildren’s language environments and their language lary is a huge associa...

Research on the relationship between aspects of language development and Theory of Mind (ToM) in children with language impairments suggests that children with language impairment show a delay in ToM development. This study aimed to examine the relationships of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic skills with ToM in school-age children. Twenty children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) ...

The development of reading skills is underpinned by oral language abilities: Phonological skills appear to have a causal influence on the development of early word-level literacy skills, and reading-comprehension ability depends, in addition to word-level literacy skills, on broader (semantic and syntactic) language skills. Here, we report a longitudinal study of children at familial risk of dy...

2 1. Introduction Williams syndrome [WS] is a genetic disorder associated with learning difficulties, with an incidence of 1 in 25,000 (Greenberg, 1990). It is caused by a microdeletion on the long arm of chromosome 7 at 7q11.23, which affects one allele of the elastin gene and other contiguous genes (Ewart et al. Frangiskakis et al., 1996). Within cognitive skills, there is a spatial disorder,...

INTRODUCTION The present study seeks to describe and analyze the syntactic features of children with severely hearing loss who had access to the hearing aids compared with children with normal hearing, assigning them to the same separate gender classes. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the present study, eight children with severe hearing impairment who used a hearing aid and eight hearing children m...

since the appearance of the knowledge of syntax the grammarians made an effort to develop the rules of arabic language, through which the quran was sent down. to do this they considered some principles:1 ) to develop the rules of syntax they only referred to the language of arab noble and eloquent tribes. 2) they developed the rules of syntax based on the widespread and prevalent language of ar...