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Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Early Language Acquisition
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Special Issue "Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Early Language Acquisition"

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurolinguistics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2023 | Viewed by 2318

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Pia Rämä

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Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center - CNRS UMR 8002 CNRS, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
Interests: early language acquisition; lexical–semantic development; bilingualism
Dr. Louah Sirri

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Faculty of Health and Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Interests: language development; bilingualism; social communication; multisensory perception
Dr. Andrea Helo

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1. Departamento de Fonoaudiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2. Departamento de Neurociencias, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Interests: language development; developmental language disorder; vision and language interaction during development

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Neurodevelopmental disorders are often associated with difficulties in language acquisition. However, developmental and neural mechanisms that lead to these difficulties remain unclear. This Special Issue aims to publish studies on developmental disorders (e.g., ADHD, dyslexia, ASD, and DLD) and their impact on language acquisition. We also focus on studies investigating biological (e.g., premature birth, family’s history of language disorders) and environmental (e.g., parental mental health, stress, or poverty) factors that put young children at risk of developing a language disorder.  We invite contributions investigating language disorders in monolingual and bilingual children from different linguistic backgrounds. Intervention studies (e.g., speech therapy, music interventions) investigating performance or neural correlates of outcomes are highly encouraged. Studies using neurophysiological, neuroimaging, or neuropsychological techniques will be prioritized. The main purpose of this Special Issue is to gain better insight to risks to early language development in different populations and linguistic contexts to better understand the neural underpinnings of language impairments and mechanisms of possible beneficial interventions.

Dr. Pia Rämä
Dr. Louah Sirri
Dr. Andrea Helo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • neurodevelopment
  • language development
  • developmental disorders
  • language impairment
  • bilingualism
  • children at risk
  • language interventions

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Probing the Impact of Prematurity on Segmentation Abilities in the Context of Bilingualism
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Elena Berdasco-Muñoz
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Valérie Biran
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Thierry Nazzi
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(4), 568; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13040568 - 28 Mar 2023
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Infants born prematurely are at a high risk of developing linguistic deficits. In the current study, we compare how full-term and healthy preterm infants without neuro-sensorial impairments segment words from fluent speech, an ability crucial for lexical acquisition. While early word segmentation abilities [...] Read more.
Infants born prematurely are at a high risk of developing linguistic deficits. In the current study, we compare how full-term and healthy preterm infants without neuro-sensorial impairments segment words from fluent speech, an ability crucial for lexical acquisition. While early word segmentation abilities have been found in monolingual infants, we test here whether it is also the case for French-dominant bilingual infants with varying non-dominant languages. These bilingual infants were tested on their ability to segment monosyllabic French words from French sentences at 6 months of (postnatal) age, an age at which both full-term and preterm monolinguals are able to segment these words. Our results establish the existence of segmentation skills in these infants, with no significant difference in performance between the two maturation groups. Correlation analyses failed to find effects of gestational age in the preterm group, as well as effects of the language dominance within the bilingual groups. These findings indicate that monosyllabic word segmentation, which has been found to emerge by 4 months in monolingual French-learning infants, is a robust ability acquired at an early age even in the context of bilingualism and prematurity. Future studies should further probe segmentation abilities in more extreme conditions, such as in bilinguals tested in their non-dominant language, in preterm infants with medical issues, or testing the segmentation of more complex word structures. Full article
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Discriminatory Brain Processes of Native and Foreign Language in Children with and without Reading Difficulties
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Najla Azaiez
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Otto Loberg
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Kaisa Lohvansuu
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Sari Ylinen
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Jarmo A. Hämäläinen
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Paavo H. T. Leppänen
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(1), 76; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010076 - 30 Dec 2022
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The association between impaired speech perception and reading difficulty has been well established in native language processing, as can be observed from brain activity. However, there has been scarce investigation of whether this association extends to brain activity during foreign language processing. The [...] Read more.
The association between impaired speech perception and reading difficulty has been well established in native language processing, as can be observed from brain activity. However, there has been scarce investigation of whether this association extends to brain activity during foreign language processing. The relationship between reading skills and neuronal speech representation of foreign language remains unclear. In the present study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) with high-density EEG to investigate this question. Eleven- to 13-year-old children typically developed (CTR) or with reading difficulties (RD) were tested via a passive auditory oddball paradigm containing native (Finnish) and foreign (English) speech items. The change-detection-related ERP responses, the mismatch response (MMR), and the late discriminative negativity (LDN) were studied. The cluster-based permutation tests within and between groups were performed. The results showed an apparent language effect. In the CTR group, we found an atypical MMR in the foreign language processing and a larger LDN response for speech items containing a diphthong in both languages. In the RD group, we found unstable MMR with lower amplitude and a nonsignificant LDN response. A deficit in the LDN response in both languages was found within the RD group analysis. Moreover, we observed larger brain responses in the RD group and a hemispheric polarity reversal compared to the CTR group responses. Our results provide new evidence that language processing differed between the CTR and RD groups in early and late discriminatory responses and that language processing is linked to reading skills in both native and foreign language contexts. Full article
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Planned Papers

The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.

Title: Interaction between visual thinking and language processing with first and second language speakers
Authors: Lars-Eric Christer Johansson; Per Olav Folgerø
Affiliation: Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway

Title: Implications of selective mutism for early language acquisition in emergent multilinguals: Paving the way for support
Authors: Margaret Funke Omidire
Affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria

Title: A systematic study of risk-factors for dyslexia and related learning disorders from a vast French cohort of patients attending a region-wide diagnosis platform
Authors: Michel HABIB; Jean-Luc VELAY; Aude JOFFROY-FRIXONS; Kamila SMIGASIEWICZ; Isabel SUAREZ; Marieke LONGCAMP
Affiliation: 1. NeurodysPACA, 3 square Stalingrad, 13001, Marseille, France 2. CNRS, Aix Marseille University LNC, Marseille, France

Title: Examining Pragmatic Language Development in Preschoolers with and ‎Without Pragmatic Language Impairment: A Cross-Sectional Study
Authors: Ahmed Alduais
Affiliation: Department of Human Sciences (Psychology) , University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Title: Pragmatic Language Impairment: Analysis of Mapping ‎‎Knowledge Domains
Authors: Ahmed Alduais
Affiliation: Department of Human Sciences (Psychology) , University of Verona, Verona, Italy

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