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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2015 Jan 15;51:205–222. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.01.008

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Electrophysiological evidence from children and adults with specific language impairment (SLI). In an event-related potential (ERP) study (Fonteneau and van der Lely, 2008), syntactic anomalies elicited a left anterior negativity in typically developing children and adults. In contrast, in children and adults with SLI the anomalies elicited an N400, which has been linked to lexical/semantic processing and declarative memory (Kutas and Federmeier, 2011; Ullman, 2001). This suggests that, unlike typically developing individuals, individuals with SLI may rely on lexical/semantic processing and declarative memory to compensate for impairments at syntactic processing. Figure adapted from Fonteneau and van der Lely (2008).