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Direct linkZimmer, Elly Jane – First Language, 2017
This study asks whether children accept both interpretations of ambiguous sentences with contexts supporting each option. Twenty-six 3- to 5-year-old English-speaking children and a control group of 30 English-speaking adults participated in a truth value judgment task. As a step towards evaluating the complexity of syntactic ambiguity, the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Comprehension, Ambiguity (Semantics), Syntax
Thornton, Rosalind; Rombough, Kelly; Martin, Jasmine; Orton, Linda – First Language, 2016
This study used elicited production methodology to investigate the negative sentences that are produced by English-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI). Negative sentences were elicited in contexts in which adults use the negative auxiliary verb doesn't (e.g., "It doesn't fit"). This form was targeted to see how…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Matched Groups
Lalioti, Marina; Stavrakaki, Stavroula; Manouilidou, Christina; Talli, Ioanna – First Language, 2016
This study investigated the performance of school age Greek-speaking children with SLI on verbal short-term memory (VSTM) and Subject-Verb (S-V) agreement in comparison to chronological age controls and younger typically developing children. VSTM abilities were assessed by means of a non-word repetition task (NRT) and an elicited production task,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages)
