Production of the English Past Tense by Children with Language Comprehension Impairments

Autor/inn/en	Nation, Kate; Snowling, Margaret J.; Clarke, Paula
Titel	Production of the English Past Tense by Children with Language Comprehension Impairments
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 32 (2005) 1, S.117-137 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000904006555
Schlagwörter	English; Foreign Countries; Comprehension; Semantics; Verbs; Error Patterns; Language Skills; Language Acquisition; Morphemes; Language Impairments; Children; Comparative Analysis; Reading Skills; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English language; Englisch; Ausland; Verstehen; Verständnis; Semantik; Fehlertyp; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Morphem; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Großbritannien
Abstract	Three experiments investigated the ability of eight-year old children with poor language comprehension to produce past tense forms of verbs. Twenty children selected as poor comprehenders were compared to 20 age-matched control children. Although the poor comprehenders performed less well than controls on a range of tasks considered to tap verbal-semantic abilities, the two groups showed equivalent phonological skills. Poor comprehenders performed as well as control children when asked to inflect novel verbs and regular verbs. In contrast, poor comprehenders were less skilled than controls at inflecting both high frequency and low frequency irregular verbs. Although the predominant error pattern for all children was to over-regularize, this was most marked in the poor comprehenders; control children were more likely to produce errors that contained knowledge of the irregular form than poor comprehenders. In addition, the ability to inflect irregular verbs was related to individual differences in verbal-semantic skills. These findings are discussed within a framework in which verb inflection is related to underlying language skills in both the phonological and semantic domains. [This research was conducted with support from the Wellcome Trust .] (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10