But in some stories, more than half of the comments were by Russian trolls – identified partly by their poor grammar, repetition of content and IP address.
Our findings with adults with poor nonword repetition skills are consistent with that view.
Within the context of these this theory, but the focus has been on explaining poor nonword repetition in terms of storage limitations or of rapid decay of representations.
We predicted that if poor nonword repetition derived from deficits in discriminating the consonants in the auditory input, then a significant group difference would be observed due to reduced MMN responses to all four deviants by the poor nonword-repeaters.
Limited ability to segment individual phonemes has been mooted as a possible cause of poor nonword repetition [21], raising the possibility that poor nonword-repeaters fail to engage in local processing and so are influenced solely by global mismatch.
As a measure of auditory discrimination, the MMN permitted us to test the hypothesis that poor nonword repetition is related to problems at the earliest stage of encoding, i.e., in distinguishing between consonants.
Wernicke, 1874 [49] claimed that the SLF was the most relevant WM tract for language function and that disruption to the SLF leads to frontotemporal disconnection resulting in conduction aphasia, a type of aphasia characterized by poor speech repetition.
It has been shown that SLI and RD share a common high heritability if the child had poor nonword repetition abilities (50,61).
If the pathway underlying poor nonword repetition involved the cerebellum we might have found a deficit in eyeblink conditioning only in those children but we found none.
One might expect that the mechanism underlying poor nonword repetition and its locus to be the same in both SLI and dyslexia.
A structural imaging study of specific language impairment has also associated bilateral abnormalities in the caudate nuclei with poor nonword repetition, a task that relies on phonology rather than semantics (Watkins et al. 2002).
