The Effects of Production Demands on Grammatical Weaknesses in Specific Language Impairment: The Case of Clitic Pronouns in Italian

Autor/inn/en	Leonard, Laurence B.; Dispaldro, Marco
Titel	The Effects of Production Demands on Grammatical Weaknesses in Specific Language Impairment: The Case of Clitic Pronouns in Italian
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56 (2013) 4, S.1272-1286 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0295)
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Italian; Grammar; Language Impairments; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Cues; Sentences; Preschool Children; Control Groups; Foreign Countries; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Italienisch; Grammatik; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Aufgabenanalyse; Fantasieanregung; Stichwort; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ausland; Italien
Abstract	Purpose: Extended optional use of direct object clitic pronouns (e.g., "la" in "Paula la vede" ["Paula sees her"]) appears to be a clinical marker for specific language impairment (SLI) in Italian. In this study, we examined whether sentence production demands might influence the degree to which Italian-speaking children with SLI produced clitics. Method: Preschool-age children with SLI ("n" = 15) and 2 groups of younger typically developing children ("n" = 15 each) participated. Production demands were varied through use of a syntactic priming task. Results: The children with SLI were more likely than the comparison children to omit the clitic in a control condition in which they had to describe a target picture without the benefit of a preceding sentence prime. The children with SLI were also more likely to describe target pictures using a default clitic or a clitic that had appeared in the preceding prime sentence but was inappropriate for the target. Conclusions: The findings suggest that children with SLI have difficulty generating a sentence containing a grammatical slot for a clitic when production demands are increased, and when they succeed in generating such a sentence, they often cannot at the same time retrieve the appropriate clitic form. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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