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The Generalisation of Linguistic Constructions in Children with or without Developmental Language Disorders
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Krzemien, Magali; Seret, Esther; Maillart, Christelle – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The generalisation of linguistic constructions is performed through analogical reasoning. Children with developmental language disorders (DLD) are impaired in analogical reasoning and in generalisation. However, these processes are improved by an input involving variability and similarity. Here we investigated the performance of children with or…
Descriptors: Generalization, Language Impairments, Figurative Language, Abstract Reasoning
Children with SLI Exhibit Delays Resolving Ambiguous Reference
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Estis, Julie M.; Beverly, Brenda L. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Fast mapping weaknesses in children with specific language impairment (SLI) may be explained by differences in disambiguation, mapping an unknown word to an unnamed object. The impact of language ability and linguistic stimulus on disambiguation was investigated. Sixteen children with SLI (8 preschool, 8 school-age) and sixteen typically…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students
Between L2 and SLI: Inflections and Prepositions in the Hebrew of Bilingual Children with TLD and Monolingual Children with SLI
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Armon-Lotem, Sharon – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Verb inflectional morphology and prepositions are loci of difficulty for bilingual children with typical language development (TLD) as well as children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). This paper examines errors in these linguistic domains in these two populations. Bilingual English-Hebrew and Russian-Hebrew preschool children, aged five…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
Interactivity in Prosodic Representations in Children
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Goffman, Lisa; Westover, Stefanie – Journal of Child Language, 2013
The aim of this study was to determine, using speech error and articulatory analyses, whether the binary distinction between iambs and trochees should be extended to include additional prosodic subcategories. Adults, children who are normally developing, and children with specific language impairment (SLI) participated. Children with SLI were…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research, Language Acquisition
Perception of Audio-Visual Speech Synchrony in Spanish-Speaking Children with and without Specific Language Impairment
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Pons, Ferran; Andreu, Llorenc; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Buil-Legaz, Lucia; Lewkowicz, David J. – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Speech perception involves the integration of auditory and visual articulatory information, and thus requires the perception of temporal synchrony between this information. There is evidence that children with specific language impairment (SLI) have difficulty with auditory speech perception but it is not known if this is also true for the…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Auditory Perception
Gender and Agreement Processing in Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Rakhlin, Natalia; Kornilov, Sergey A.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Two experiments tested whether Russian-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) are sensitive to gender agreement when performing a gender decision task. In Experiment 1, the presence of overt gender agreement between verbs and/or adjectival modifiers and postverbal subject nouns memory was varied. In Experiment 2, agreement…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Accuracy, Language Acquisition