Electrophysiological Evidence for Sentence Comprehension - Wings

language function. This followed from broader distributed components with later
latencies obtained in both ‘case-chi’ and ‘tense-chi’ experiments. In the group of children
with SLI much smaller differences between experimental conditions (violation – non-
violation) were obtained reflecting difficulties of error detection observed in this group of
participants. Finally, smaller differences between the experiments could be observed in
the SLI group suggesting that the lag in language development consists of lack of
modularization of language function. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that
the deficit behind SLI is, in fact, processing specific language information by
‘inadequate’ means.
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