Rhythm is gonna get you. Electrophysiological markers of rhythmic processing in infants with and without risk for specific language impairment (SLI)

The present study is part of the German Lanugage Development Study (GlaD, www.glad-study.de). The GlaD study is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate normal and impired language production and perception during the first years of life. Its main focus is the aetiology of Speech and Language Impairment (SLI). ... The aim of the study at hand was 1. to investigate the influence of long term memory traces for language specific stress pattern in bisyllabics on the brain discrimination response in German and French adults; 2. to determine the developmental time point of emerging stress pattern discrimination in German infants using an electrophysiological paradigm; 3. to find out about discrimination abilities for differences in vowel duration as a crucial prerequisite for stress pattern discrimination in German adults, infants not-at-risk for SLI and infants at-risk for SLI. 5. Throughout all experiments the influence of methodological differences between studies on the morphology of the infant's brain discrimination was investigated.