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This research examines the use of linguistic cues by preschoolers to anticipate conversational turns, focusing on differences between those with and without DLD.

March 14, 2026Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research0 citationsOpen Access

Who's Next? Turn Anticipation in Dutch Preschoolers With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

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ILImme LammertinkRadboud University Nijmegen CRCaroline RowlandMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MCMarisa CasillasUniversity of Chicago

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This research examines the use of linguistic cues by preschoolers to anticipate conversational turns, focusing on differences between those with and without DLD.
Participants included three-year-olds with and without developmental language disorder (DLD).
Children were observed using linguistic cues during conversations to predict turns.
Children with DLD showed slower processing of conversational structure compared to their peers.
Turn-taking difficulties were noted in children with DLD, linked to their prediction speed.

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Three-year-olds with and without DLD thus use linguistic cues to predict conversational structure in real time. The outcomes suggest, however, that children with DLD may be slower in their predictions. This slower processing may contribute to the turn-taking difficulties sometimes observed in children with DLD.

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Lammertink et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b4b9fb18185d8a398024c8 https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_jslhr-25-00180

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March 14, 2026Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research0 citationsOpen Access

Who's Next? Turn Anticipation in Dutch Preschoolers With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

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ILImme LammertinkRadboud University Nijmegen CRCaroline RowlandMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MCMarisa CasillasUniversity of Chicago

Key Points

This research examines the use of linguistic cues by preschoolers to anticipate conversational turns, focusing on differences between those with and without DLD.
Participants included three-year-olds with and without developmental language disorder (DLD).
Children were observed using linguistic cues during conversations to predict turns.
Children with DLD showed slower processing of conversational structure compared to their peers.
Turn-taking difficulties were noted in children with DLD, linked to their prediction speed.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69b4b9fb18185d8a398024c8 https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_jslhr-25-00180

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