Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Information in 3-Year-Old Children with Typical Language Development: A Feasibility Study

Autor/inn/en	Deevy, Patricia; Leonard, Laurence B.; Marchman, Virginia A.
Titel	Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Information in 3-Year-Old Children with Typical Language Development: A Feasibility Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60 (2017) 3, S.668-674 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-15-0153
Schlagwörter	Language Impairments; Grammar; Morphemes; Morphology (Languages); Correlation; Role; Pictorial Stimuli; Task Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Toddlers; Language Acquisition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Grammatik; Morphem; Morphology; Morphologie; Korrelation; Rollen; Fantasieanregung; Aufgabenanalyse; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	Purpose: This study tested the feasibility of a method designed to assess children's sensitivity to tense/agreement information in fronted auxiliaries during online comprehension of questions (e.g., "Are the nice little dogs running?"). We expected that a group of children who were proficient in auxiliary use would show this sensitivity, indicating an awareness of the relation between the subject-verb sequence (e.g., "dogs running") and preceding information (e.g., "are"). Failure to grasp this relation is proposed to play a role in the protracted inconsistency in auxiliary use in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Fifteen 3-year-old typically developing children who demonstrated proficiency in auxiliary use viewed pairs of pictures showing a single agent and multiple agents while hearing questions with or without an agreeing fronted auxiliary. Proportion looking to the target was measured. Results: Children showed anticipatory looking on the basis of the number information contained in the auxiliary ("is" or "are"). Conclusions: The children tested in this study represent a group that frequently serves as a comparison for older children with SLI. Because the method successfully demonstrated their sensitivity to tense/agreement information in questions, future research that involves direct comparisons of these 2 groups is warranted. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01