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Children Mix Direct and Indirect Speech: Evidence from Pronoun Comprehension
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Köder, Franziska; Maier, Emar – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study investigates children's acquisition of the distinction between direct speech (Elephant said, "I get the football") and indirect speech ("Elephant said that he gets the football"), by measuring children's interpretation of first, second, and third person pronouns. Based on evidence from various linguistic sources, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Indo European Languages, Young Children
"Bempen" or "Bemben": Differences between Children At-Risk of Dyslexia and Children with SLI on a Morpho-Phonological Task
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de Bree, Elise; Kerkhoff, Annemarie – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010
This study assesses morpho-phonological alternation in plural formation by 5-year-old Dutch children with a familial risk of dyslexia, children with specific language impairment (SLI), and typically developing children. The morpho-phonological process investigated is the voicing alternation in Dutch singular-plural pairs such as bed [t]…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Dyslexia, Indo European Languages, Task Analysis
The Production of Pronouns in Dutch Children with Developmental Language Disorders: A Comparison between Children with SLI, Hearing Impairment, and Down's Syndrome
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Bol, Gerard W.; Kasparian, Kristina – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
The production of pronouns in spontaneous language was investigated in three groups of children with Developmental Language Disorders (DLD): children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), children with hearing impairment (HI), and children with Down's syndrome (DS). The results were compared to the production of pronouns in typically developing…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Impairments, Hearing Impairments, Indo European Languages
The Acquisition of Bound and Free Anaphora.
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Koster, Jan; Koster, Charlotte – 1986
Most linguists assume that bound anaphors such as "himself" are connected with their antecedents in a different way from free anaphors such as "him." Bound anaphora resolution is deterministic, based on Principle A of Chomsky's binding theory. Free anaphors, pronominals, cannot be bound in the domain of reflexives (principle…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Acquisition