Jisook Park, Carol A Miller, David A Rosenbaum, Teenu Sanjeevan, Janet G van Hell, Daniel J Weiss, Elina Mainela-Arnold
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate whether dual language experience affects procedural learning ability in typically developing children and in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Method: We examined procedural learning in monolingual and bilingual school-aged children (ages 8-12 years) with and without SLI. The typically developing children (35 monolinguals, 24 bilinguals) and the children with SLI (17 monolinguals, 10 bilinguals) completed a serial reaction time task...
February 19, 2018: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR