Phonotactic Probability and Past Tense Use by Children with Specific Language Impairment and Their Typically Developing Peers

Autor/inn/en	Leonard, Laurence B.; Davis, Jennifer; Deevy, Patricia
Titel	Phonotactic Probability and Past Tense Use by Children with Specific Language Impairment and Their Typically Developing Peers
Quelle	In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 21 (2007) 10, S.747-758 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0269-9206
Schlagwörter	Verbs; Probability; Novels; Language Impairments; Language Acquisition; Child Language; Comparative Analysis; Morphemes; Preschool Children; Age Differences; Mean Length of Utterance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Novel; Roman; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Morphem; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	A group of preschool-aged children with specific language impairment (SLI), a group of typically developing children matched for age (TD-A), and a group of younger typically developing children matched for mean length of utterance (TD-MLU) were presented with novel verbs in contexts that required them to inflect with past tense "-ed." The novel verbs differed in their phonotactic probabilities. The children with SLI were less likely than the other two groups to produce the novel verbs with "-ed." Furthermore, they were less likely to use "-ed" with novel verbs of low phonotactic probability than those of high probability; this difference was not seen in the other two groups of children. It appears that the phonotactic composition of verbs is one factor that can contribute to the variability of past tense use by children with SLI. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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