Verb Morphology as Clinical Marker of Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from First and Second Language Learners

Autor/inn/en	Verhoeven, Ludo; Steenge, Judit; van Balkom, Hans
Titel	Verb Morphology as Clinical Marker of Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from First and Second Language Learners
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 32 (2011) 3, S.1186-1193 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2011.01.001
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Verbs; Morphology (Languages); Second Language Learning; Language Impairments; Disadvantaged; Monolingualism; Indo European Languages; Language Acquisition; Bilingualism; Personal Narratives + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Morphology; Morphologie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Indoeuropäisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Bilingualismus; Erlebniserzählung
Abstract	The goal of this study was to search for verb morphology characteristics as possible clinical markers of SLI in Dutch as a first and second language. We also wanted to find out to what extent bilingual children with SLI are additionally disadvantaged in comparison to monolingual children with SLI, on the one hand, and to typically developing bilingual children, on the other hand. Therefore, we examined the use of verb morphology in the narratives of four groups of 7- and 9-year-old children: native Dutch (monolingual) children without SLI, bilingual children without SLI, native Dutch (monolingual) children with SLI, and bilingual children with SLI. The narrative performance in Dutch as measured by mean length of utterance and number of ungrammatical sentences was found to be generally worse for children learning Dutch as a second language, for children suffering from SLI, and for younger children. Furthermore, omission of an agreement marker in the third person singular verb form can be seen as a clinical marker of SLI in both first and second language learners. Bilingual children with SLI were found to be in an additionally disadvantaged position as far as their use of L2 verb morphology. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10