Effects of Verb Familiarity on Finiteness Marking in Children with Specific Language Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Abel, Alyson D.; Rice, Mabel L.; Bontempo, Daniel E.
Titel	Effects of Verb Familiarity on Finiteness Marking in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58 (2015) 2, S.360-372 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-0003
Schlagwörter	Language Impairments; Verbs; Correlation; Comparative Analysis; Morphophonemics; Morphology (Languages); Accuracy; Familiarity; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Statistical Analysis; Imitation; Syntax; Phonology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Korrelation; Morphology; Morphologie; Statistische Analyse; Fonologie
Abstract	Purpose: Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have known deficits in the verb lexicon and finiteness marking. This study investigated a potential relationship between these 2 variables in children with SLI and 2 control groups considering predictions from 2 different theoretical perspectives, morphosyntactic versus morphophonological. Method: Children with SLI, age-equivalent, and language-equivalent (LE) control children (n = 59) completed an experimental sentence imitation task that generated estimates of children's finiteness accuracy under 2 levels of verb familiarity--familiar real verbs versus unfamiliar real verbs--in clausal sites marked for finiteness. Imitations were coded and analyzed for overall accuracy as well as finiteness marking and verb root imitation accuracy. Results: Statistical comparisons revealed that children with SLI did not differ from LE children and were less accurate than age-equivalent children on all dependent variables: overall imitation, finiteness marking imitation, and verb root imitation accuracy. A significant Group × Condition interaction for finiteness marking revealed lower levels of accuracy on unfamiliar verbs for the SLI and LE groups only. Conclusions: Findings indicate a relationship between verb familiarity and finiteness marking in children with SLI and younger controls and help clarify the roles of morphosyntax, verb lexicon, and morphophonology. (As Provided).
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