Differences in Sentence Comprehension Tasks between Children with Williams Syndrome and Specific Language Impairment : Evidence from Greek

Abstract

"Recently, language development in developmental disorders such as Williams syndrome (WS) and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) has received great attention by psycholinguists. Specifically, the question of whether linguistic abilities of children with SLI and Williams syndrome show any similarities or differences has motivated a number of studies (cf. Clahsen and Almazan 1998; Reilly et al. to appear). The reason for the particular interest that the above question received is the unusual profiles of individuals with WS and SLI. On the one hand, individuals with Williams syndrome, i.e. a rare neurodevelopmental disorder, exhibit a relative sparing of language abilities"