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Penke, Martina ORCID: 0000-0003-4686-7673 and Wimmer, Eva ORCID: 0000-0002-4257-0242 (2020). Verbal short-term memory and sentence comprehension in German children and adolescents with Down syndrome: Beware of the task. First Lang., 40 (4). S. 367 - 390. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1740-2344

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Abstract

In individuals with Down syndrome (DS) deficits in verbal short-term memory (VSTM) and deficits in sentence comprehension co-occur, suggesting that deficits in VSTM might be causal for the deficits in sentence comprehension. The present study aims to explore the presumed relationship between VSTM and sentence comprehension in individuals with DS by specifically targeting the influence of task demands. The authors assessed VSTM skills in 18 German-speaking children/adolescents with DS by a nonword repetition (NWR) test and elicited data from three different tasks on the comprehension of complex sentence structures: two sentence-picture-matching tasks (TROG-D and a passive test) and one picture-pointing task on object wh-questions. Whereas performance in NWR yielded a significant degree of prediction for scores obtained in the TROG-D and in passive comprehension, no significant degree of prediction was found for NWR and object wh-question comprehension. Moreover, implicational scaling analyses indicated that mental-age adequate performance in sentence comprehension did not imply adequate performance in NWR. Research is needed that specifies the relation between memory systems and sentence comprehension while considering the influence of task demands.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Penke, Martina UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-7673 UNSPECIFIED Wimmer, Eva UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4257-0242 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-348742
DOI:	10.1177/0142723719899587
Journal or Publication Title:	First Lang.
Volume:	40
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 367 - 390
Date:	2020
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1740-2344
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Heilpädagogik und Rehabilitation
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WORKING-MEMORY; PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; SYNTACTIC COMPREHENSION; IMPAIRMENT; ACQUISITION; DEFICITS; ADULTS; SKILLS Multiple languages Psychology, Developmental; Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34874