Tense and Aspect in Sentence Interpretation by Children with Specific Language Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia
Titel	Tense and Aspect in Sentence Interpretation by Children with Specific Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 37 (2010) 2, S.395-418 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000909990018
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Cues; Language Impairments; Morphemes; Grammar; Task Analysis; Language Acquisition; Child Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Stichwort; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Morphem; Grammatik; Aufgabenanalyse; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache
Abstract	The aim of this study was to determine whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) are sensitive to completion cues in their comprehension of tense. In two experiments, children with SLI (ages 4 ; 1 to 6 ; 4) and typically developing (TD) children (ages 3 ; 5 to 6 ; 5) participated in a sentence-to-scene matching task adapted from Wagner (2001). Sentences were in either present or past progressive and used telic predicates. Actions were performed twice in succession; the action was either completed or not completed in the first instance. In both experiments, the children with SLI were less accurate than the TD children, showing more difficulty with past than present progressive, regardless of completion cues. The TD children were less accurate with past than present progressive requests only when the past actions were incomplete. These findings suggest that children with SLI may be relatively insensitive to cues pertaining to event completion in past tense contexts. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10