Amy Pratt | The Ohio State University, El Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación
Blanca Flores | The Ohio State University, El Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación
Existing research into specific language impairment in Spanish utilizes primarily spontaneous production data and concludes that children do not have problems with verb finiteness. In contrast, we show, through a new receptive measure, the “Grammaticality Choice Task”, that the distribution of the 2 most common errors in child Spanish is sufficient to distinguish language-impaired children from age and language control groups. We conclude that finiteness marking on verbs is a promising clinical marker for SLI in Spanish and that spontaneous measures of finiteness marking do not provide the most accurate representation of children’s grammatical competence in the verbal domain in a null subject language such as Spanish.
Christou, Spyros, Llorenç Andreu, Carmen Julia Coloma, Ernesto Guerra, Claudia Araya, Javier Rodriguez-Ferreiro & Monica Sanz-Torrent
2022. Insights from real-time comprehension of Spanish verbal tense in children with developmental language disorder: An eye-tracking study. Applied Psycholinguistics 43:3 ► pp. 641 ff.
Christou, Spyros, Monica Sanz‐Torrent, Carmen J. Coloma, Ernesto Guerra, Claudia Araya & Llorenç Andreu
2021. Real‐time comprehension of Spanish prepositions and prepositional locutions in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A study based on eye‐movement evidence. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 56:1 ► pp. 51 ff.
Dickinson, Kendra V., Pedro Antonio Ortiz-Ramírez, Ana Arrieta-Zamudio, John Grinstead & Blanca Flores-Ávalos
2023. Overt Subject Pronoun Use in Switch-Reference Contexts in Child Spanish Developmental Language Disorder: A Discriminant Function Analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 66:2 ► pp. 605 ff.
Grinstead, John, Alisa Baron, Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Juliana De la Mora, Myriam Cantú-Sánchez & Blanca Flores
2013. Tense Marking and Spontaneous Speech Measures in Spanish Specific Language Impairment: A Discriminant Function Analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 56:1 ► pp. 352 ff.
JACOBSON, PEGGY F.
2012. The effects of language impairment on the use of direct object pronouns and verb inflections in heritage Spanish speakers: A look at attrition, incomplete acquisition and maintenance. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15:1 ► pp. 22 ff.
Jiang, Xiangyu, Fen Zhang, Ruixia Yan & Liang Chen
2023. Preferred argument structure in the oral narratives of adolescents with and without SLI. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 37:4-6 ► pp. 513 ff.
Liu, Xueman Lucy, Chunyan Ning, Jill de Villiers, Wendy Lee, Eric Rolfhus, Teresa Hutchings, Fan Jiang & Yiwen Zhang
2023. The characteristics of spontaneous language in young children identified as language delayed in Mandarin. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 58:6 ► pp. 1856 ff.
Torrens, Vicenç & Esther Yagüe
2018. The Role of Phonological Working Memory in Children with SLI. Language Acquisition 25:1 ► pp. 102 ff.
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