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Phonological working memory and language development: What are the measures and what do they measure?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2017

Cornelia Hamann
Cornelia Hamann*
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University of Oldenburg
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In line with the recent trend in comparative analysis of different populations (see Friedmann & Rusou, 2015, as an example), Pierce, Genesee, Delcenserie, and Morgan (2017) present a comprehensive review of different language outcomes in populations that have received qualitatively and quantitatively different input during the first year of life, from enriched stimuli in bilingual situations to no stimuli at all in the case of children with profound hearing impairment. The claims derived from these data deserve some comment, however, and need some caveats about the measures used, which I will provide in the following with a brief discussion of complementing research and the presentation of some new data derived from the Bilingual Language Development (BiLaD) Project, a recent French/German collaboration studying bilingual populations with and without specific language impairment (SLI).

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , November 2017 , pp. 1313 - 1321
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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