Research
Children with developmental language disorder show selective impairments in low-frequency neural tracking of speech
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The Brief
- A study in PLOS Biology compares neural tracking of speech in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) with that of typically developing children.
- The authors report selective impairments in low-frequency neural tracking of speech in children with DLD.
- The work tests Temporal Sampling (TS) theory, which holds that neural tracking of slow temporal modulations supports extraction of prosodic and syllabic structure needed for language acquisition.
Why it matters
The findings point to a specific neural mechanism, tracking of slow speech rhythms, that may be altered in DLD, which can inform research on how language is acquired and on the underlying causes of the disorder.
Who’s affected
- researchers in language development and speech neuroscience
- clinicians and educators working with children with developmental language disorder
- #developmental language disorder
- #speech perception
- #neural tracking
- #temporal sampling
- #language acquisition
- #neuroscience
by Mahmoud Keshavarzi, Georgia Feltham, Susan Richards, Lyla Parvez, Usha Goswami Neural tracking of slow temporal modulations in speech supports extraction of the prosodic and syllabic structure thought to be critical for language acquisition by Temporal Sampling (TS) theory…