A Preliminary Comparison of Verb Tense Production in Spanish Speakers with Expressive Restrictions

Autor/inn/en	Centeno, Jose G.; Anderson, Raquel T.
Titel	A Preliminary Comparison of Verb Tense Production in Spanish Speakers with Expressive Restrictions
Quelle	In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 25 (2011) 10, S.864-880 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0269-9206
DOI	10.3109/02699206.2011.582225
Schlagwörter	Sociolinguistics; Preschool Children; Verbs; Morphemes; Spanish; Aphasia; Grammar; Language Impairments; Adults; Second Language Learning; Bilingualism; Language Skill Attrition; Word Frequency; Morphology (Languages); Learning Disabilities; Language Acquisition; Puerto Rico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziolinguistik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Morphem; Spanisch; Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Grammatik; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Bilingualismus; Sprachverfall; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Morphology; Morphologie; Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	Spoken verb tense use in three groups of Spanish speakers with expressive limitations, namely, children with specific language impairment, bilingual children with first language (L1) (Spanish) attrition and adults with agrammatism, was compared in order to examine the possible impact of conversational tense frequency on expressive production. Based on the notion that frequent language forms in typical discourse are preferred in contexts of expressive restrictions, we predicted that tenses with high spoken occurrence will be favoured by individuals in our expressively limited groups. The incidence of tense use by the participants was assessed in oral narratives and/or a sentence repetition task. Consistent with our prediction, the most frequent verb tenses in conversational Spanish--the present, followed by the preterite--were preferred by the participants thus supporting the proposal that a socio-cognitive factor linking discursive frequency to verb retrieval may be operating in tense preference in situations of expressive stress. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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