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Cognitive and Linguistic Predictors of Language Control in Children
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Cognitive and Linguistic Predictors of Language Control in Children

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2025) | Viewed by 4627

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Prof. Dr. Agnes Lacroix

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Department of Psychology, Université de Rennes 2, 35000 Rennes, France
Interests: neuropsychology; neurodevelopmental disorders; psychiatric disorders; language; emotions; vulnerabilities

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Research in developmental neuropsychology is multiplying to study how linguistic and cognitive processes interact to enable children to master oral and/or written language. Indeed, we can note the development of work on the interactions between executive functions, cognitive control, memory and oral as well as written language. These studies have implications for increasing our scientific knowledge in the fields of neuroscience, neuropsychology, developmental psychology and cognitive psychology, while also enabling us to propose innovative approaches to care in the field of disability. 

This Special Issue will provide a resource for clinicians, incorporating recent research and information from developmental neuropsychology and related disciplines. Original research and theoretical contributions (reviews, hypotheses, and opinion articles on future directions) in typical and atypical development are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Agnes Lacroix
Guest Editor

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  • neurolinguistics
  • neuropsychology
  • language development
  • language control

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Involvement of Executive Functions in Idiom Comprehension: A Life-Span Perspective
by Agnès Lacroix, Nolwenn Troles, Mélissa Burgevin, Camille Le Bescond, Virginie Laval and Audrey Noël
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(11), 1076; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14111076 - 28 Oct 2024
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Objectives—Our aim is to investigate the executive functions involved in idiom comprehension. The understanding of idioms has largely been explored from a developmental perspective. However, little is known about the cognitive processes involved. Recent studies highlight the contributions of working memory and inhibitory [...] Read more.
Objectives—Our aim is to investigate the executive functions involved in idiom comprehension. The understanding of idioms has largely been explored from a developmental perspective. However, little is known about the cognitive processes involved. Recent studies highlight the contributions of working memory and inhibitory control in idiom processing. We investigated executive functions’ implication in idiom comprehension from a life-span perspective. Methods—The participants of this study were aged from 6 years to adulthood (n = 109 participants). An idiom comprehension task and executive tests were administered. Results and Conclusions—The results indicated that idiom comprehension improved across all the age groups tested. Moreover, the involvement of inhibition and cognitive flexibility processes was specific at different ages and particularly involved during adolescence. Full article
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Grammatical Representations of the Verb Phrase in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Syntactic Priming in Five-Year-Olds
by Dong-Bo Hsu
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(11), 1074; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14111074 - 28 Oct 2024
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Background/Objectives: Debates regarding how to represent verb phrases (VPs) consisting of the verb plus the complement and the aspectual marker -le in Mandarin Chinese remain an issue. Methods: Syntactic priming under a memory disguise paradigm was employed to investigate the issue using [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Debates regarding how to represent verb phrases (VPs) consisting of the verb plus the complement and the aspectual marker -le in Mandarin Chinese remain an issue. Methods: Syntactic priming under a memory disguise paradigm was employed to investigate the issue using the SVO-ba alternation, where the SVO structure consists of a subject verb object, and the ba structure of a subject ba object verb, in five-year-olds (n = 216), an age with fully fledged grammatical knowledge but little interference from literacy. Results: The results indicate that both the complement and the marker -le should be represented in terms of phrasal rather than morphological structures. When -le is inflected to the verb alone, realization, which makes an event a fact, rather than completion, which makes an event finished, is accomplished. The event must be telicized to a state through a resultative complement to induce reliable production of the ba construction. The postverbal elements represent their own phrasal structure and challenge the verb-centered lexico-syntactic account because there are no additional representations left within a verb. Conclusions: More elicitations of the SVO than the ba invite future neurolinguistic explorations to disentangle the impacts of the frequency and thematic arrangement of agent and patient on grammatical representations cross-linguistically. Full article
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Theoretical Considerations on the Literacy-Metacognition Nexus: Exploring the Linguistic-Cognitive Landscape of Young Multilingual Minds
by Barbara Hofer and Birgit Spechtenhauser
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(10), 979; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14100979 - 27 Sep 2024
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Background/Objectives: Research suggests that metalinguistic and cognitive/attentional-control processes are key variables in literacy development in young learners. Interactions between these variables are complex, and this complexity is increased in multilingual learners. With data on the interplay between metalinguistic and cognitive awareness, literacy, and [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Research suggests that metalinguistic and cognitive/attentional-control processes are key variables in literacy development in young learners. Interactions between these variables are complex, and this complexity is increased in multilingual learners. With data on the interplay between metalinguistic and cognitive awareness, literacy, and multilingualism being scarce, it is far from clear how these variables interact and how they impact the individual child. This article sets out to shine some light on the interconnectedness and interactions between metalinguistic awareness, cognitive/executive functions, and (multilingual) literacy. Conclusions: We argue that the three dimensions are strongly correlated and that this correlation comes with important implications for language learning, language processing, and language development. However, the exact nature of these correlations is yet to be established. Full article
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