ERIC Number: EJ1251933
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Publication Date: 2020-Apr
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Morphological Errors in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children with and without Developmental Language Disorders
Castilla-Earls, Anny; Auza, Alejandra; Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa; Fulcher-Rood, Katrina; Barr, Christopher
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, v51 n2 p270-281 Apr 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify which morphological markers have the best diagnostic accuracy to identify developmental language disorders (DLD) in monolingual Spanish-speaking children. Method: The participants in this study included 50 Spanish-speaking monolingual children with (n = 25) and without (n = 25) DLD. Data collection took place in Mexico. Children were administered a comprehensive elicitation task that set up felicitous contexts to produce morphological structures previously identified as problematic for Spanish-speaking children with DLD: articles, direct object pronouns, adjectives, plurals, verb conjugations, and the subjunctive in Spanish. Results: Statistically significant group differences between children with and without DLD were found for all morphological structures examined but plurals. Logistic regression analyses suggested that a model that included clitic and verbs was the best model to uniquely predict group membership. This model showed sensitivity of 96% and specificity of 80%. Conclusion: Clitics and verbs should be considered morphological markers of DLD in monolingual Spanish-speaking children.
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Accuracy, Language Impairments, Spanish Speaking, Mexicans, Form Classes (Languages), Task Analysis, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Error Analysis (Language), Models, Goodness of Fit, Developmental Delays, Identification, Clinical Diagnosis
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico
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