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they co-occur: “although previously proposed explanatory hypotheses can individually
capture specific aspects of the empirical data, none of them can easily account for either
the range or the variation of the particular impaired linguistic and non-linguistic functions
found across SLI, and even within SLI subgroups.” (Ullman & Pierpont, 2005, p.
400). In a more strict way, Tomblin et al. (2003) summarized this in the statement:
“Aetiology of SLI is unknown.” (p. 235).
In their acquisition of grammar, children with SLI might miss to notice the regularities
in the language input. Many prerequisites of language acquisition may be important for
music perception as well. For example, capacity limitations of the information processing
– hypothesized for children with SLI – may hamper them to assess regularities in
language and music. During language acquisition, these children may rely for a longer
period on lexically specific item-based information and may require a larger verb vocabulary
to extract pattern or schemata. Further, it might be harder for these children to
build a critical mass of verb tokens and construction types which is crucial for this process.