Comprehension and Production of Noun Compounds by Estonian Children with Specific Language Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Padrik, Marika; Tamtik, Merli
Titel	Comprehension and Production of Noun Compounds by Estonian Children with Specific Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 23 (2009) 5, S.375-391 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0269-9206
Schlagwörter	Nouns; Language Impairments; Children; Comprehension; Finno Ugric Languages; Control Groups; Comparative Analysis; Logical Thinking; Sentences; Classification; Language Processing; Foreign Countries; Estonia; Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Verstehen; Verständnis; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Sprachverarbeitung; Ausland; Estland
Abstract	The authors examined how 12 Estonian-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 60 children with normal speech development (ND) comprehended compound nouns with differing sequence of the components (first task) and how they produced compound nouns to label genuine and accidental categories by using analogy (second task) and sentence transformation (third task). The results demonstrated that children with SLI were capable of producing compound nouns for genuine categories, but avoided production of compounds to label objects in temporary juxtapositions. However, by comparison with the control group, SLI children differed statistically significantly in terms of both the number of correct answers and the pattern of mistakes. In the cases when compound nouns were expected to be produced by transforming sentences, the results of SLI children were considerably lower than those of their peers. The results of this study support the idea that children with SLI experience difficulties related to processing linguistic information. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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