Morpho-Syntactic Load in Judging Adjective Plural Agreement: Comparing Adults with and without ADHD

Autor/inn/en	Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit; Gur, Adi
Titel	Morpho-Syntactic Load in Judging Adjective Plural Agreement: Comparing Adults with and without ADHD
Quelle	In: Communication Disorders Quarterly, 36 (2015) 2, S.79-89 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-7401
DOI	10.1177/1525740114537519
Schlagwörter	Morphology (Languages); Syntax; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Language Impairments; Grammar; Form Classes (Languages); Nouns; Morphemes; Accuracy; Reaction Time; Control Groups; Adults; Semitic Languages; Native Speakers; Language Tests; Foreign Countries; Israel; Continuous Performance Test; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Grammatik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Morphem; Reaktionsvermögen; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Muttersprachler; Language test; Sprachtest; Ausland
Abstract	The study examined the impact of two grammatical factors on marking Hebrew adjectives in agreement with plural nouns in adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared with peers without ADHD. Participants were 36 adult speakers of Hebrew, who were administered a judgment test of 144 sentences, each containing an adjective in agreement with a plural noun in one of three different syntactic configurations--predicative adjectives, attributive adjectives in sentence-initial position, and attributive adjectives in sentence-final position. Noun suffixes were regular, semiregular (ambiguous), and irregular. Findings showed that participants with ADHD displayed lower accuracy and longer response time compared with controls. As morphological and morpho-syntactic difficulty simultaneously increased, participants with ADHD were significantly more likely to perform less well compared with controls on both accuracy and speed. These findings indicate that adults with ADHD might be suffering from a linguistic impairment exacerbated under more cognitively and linguistically demanding conditions. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01