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The Repetition of Relative Clauses in Mandarin Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Wang, Haiyan; Yu, Haopeng – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
This paper attempts to investigate the repetition of Relative Clauses (RCs) in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) (aged 4; 5 to 6; 0) and their typically developing (TD) peers. The results of a sentence repetition task indicate that Mandarin children with DLD perform significantly worse than both groups of TD children,…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition
Relative Clause Sentence Processing in Korean-Speaking School-Aged Children with and without Specific Language Impairment
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Yoo, Jeewon; Yim, Dongsun – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The goal of this study was to examine online and off-line sentence processing using Korean language relative clause sentences between children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with typical development (TD). Method: Twenty-four children with TD and 19 children with SLI participated in this study. Children completed…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Korean, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
Identification of two SLI profiles through WISC-IV, CELF-4 and FON
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Martínez, Ana B. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2015
This work has two objectives. First of all, to offer psychometric instruments that help more precisely identify and differentiate children with specific language impairment (SLI) in the educational field and, secondly, to establish profiles of the two cases that illustrate the two current subtypes of SLI: phonologic-syntactic SLI and…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Intelligence Tests, Language Tests
Comprehension of Reflexive and Personal Pronouns in Children with Autism: A Syntactic or Pragmatic Deficit?
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Perovic, Alexandra; Modyanova, Nadya; Wexler, Ken – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Although pragmatic deficits are well documented in autism, little is known about the extent to which grammatical knowledge in this disorder is deficient, or merely delayed when compared to that of typically developing children functioning at similar linguistic or cognitive levels. This study examines the knowledge of constraints on the…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Form Classes (Languages), Autism
Sentence Repetition as a Measure of Morphosyntax in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
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Komeili, Mariam; Marshall, Chloe R. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2013
Bilingual children are frequently misdiagnosed as having Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Misdiagnosis may be minimized by tests with high degrees of sensitivity and specificity. The current study used a new test, the School-Age Sentence Imitation Test-English 32 (SASIT-E32), to investigate sentence repetition in monolingual and bilingual…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Impairments, Bilingualism
Second Language Lexical Acquisition: Issues and Problems.
Levenston, Edward A. – 1979
Most second language acquisition research has been concerned with grammar or phonology and has failed to discuss lexical acquisition. The main reason for this neglect has been the lack of vocabulary study by linguists. However, recent concern with semantic theory has brought new impetus to work on lexical acquisition. Useful research on lexical…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language)