Specific Language Impairment in Children: A Comparison of English and Swedish

Autor/inn/en	Leonard, Laurence B.; Hansson, Kristina; Nettelbladt, Ulrike; Deevy, Patricia
Titel	Specific Language Impairment in Children: A Comparison of English and Swedish
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition, 12 (2004) 3, S.219-246 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1207/s15327817la1203&4_3
Schlagwörter	Severity (of Disability); Language Impairments; English; Swedish; Preschool Children; Grammar; Measures (Individuals); Contrastive Linguistics; Verbs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schweregrad; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; English language; Englisch; Schwedisch; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Grammatik; Messdaten; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik
Abstract	We report a cross-linguistic investigation of English-and Swedish-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) in an attempt to determine whether Wexler's (1998; 2003) (Extended) Unique Checking Constraint (EUCC) can account for the grammatical profiles of these groups of children. In Study 1, a group of Swedish-speaking preschoolers with SLI showed greater use of finite verb inflections and copula forms than a group of English-speaking preschoolers with SLI, even though the two groups were carefully matched according to both age and severity of language impairment. In Study 2, the same Swedish-speaking children with SLI showed high levels of appropriate verb-second use with finite verbs. However, they were less proficient in this regard than a group of younger typically developing Swedish children with similar mean lengths of utterance. The findings from both studies are generally compatible with predictions based on the EUCC. Issues in need of future investigation are discussed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10