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Ling-Yu Guo; Ping Lee; Hsin-Jen Hsu; Linda Spencer – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The study examined the use of percent grammatical utterances (PGUs) for assessing grammatical skills in Mandarin-speaking 3-year-old children. Method: Participants were 30 Mandarin-speaking 3-year-olds with typical development. Language samples were collected in two visits for each child using a picture description task. Children were…
Descriptors: Grammar, Mandarin Chinese, Young Children, Error Patterns
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Taha, Juhayna; Stojanovik, Vesna; Pagnamenta, Emma – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the production of tense and subject-verb agreement in Palestinian Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in comparison to their typically developing (TD) peers in terms of (a) performance accuracy and (b) error patterns. Method: Participants were 14 children with DLD aged 4;0-7;10 and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Verbs, Expressive Language, Morphology (Languages)
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Vuolo, Janet; Goffman, Lisa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Poor nonword repetition accuracy is a hallmark of children with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, other diagnostic categories also show impaired nonword repetition performance relative to children with typical development (TD); therefore, this task is currently a sensitive but nonspecific index of DLD. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Repetition, Accuracy, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
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Roesch, Anne Dorothée; Chondrogianni, Vasiliki – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined whether monolingual German-speaking preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD) were facilitated by the presence of case-marking cues in their interpretation of German subject and object "welcher" ("which")-questions, as reported for their typically developing peers. We also…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Questioning Techniques, Cues, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Roepke, Elizabeth; Bower, Kathryn E.; Miller, Catherine A.; Brosseau-Lapré, Françoise – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This study compared performance on the Syllable Repetition Task (SRT) by preschoolers with diverse speech and language abilities to identify underlying impairments in speech processes. Method: Three groups of 13 children ages 4 and 5 years with (a) typically developing (TD) speech and language, (b) speech sound disorder (SSD), and (c)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Speech Language Pathology, Young Children, Speech Impairments
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Pham, Giang T.; Pruitt-Lord, Sonja; Snow, Catherine E. Snow; Nguyen, Yen Hoang Thi; Pham, Ben; Dao, Thuy Bich Thi; Tran, Ngoc Bich Thi; Pham, Linh Thuy; Hoang, Hien Thu; Dam, Quynh Diem – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD), defined by low language performance despite otherwise normal development, can negatively impact children's social and academic outcomes. This study is the 1st to examine DLD in Vietnamese. To lay the foundation, we identified cases of DLD in Vietnam and explored language-specific characteristics of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Language Acquisition, Vietnamese
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Christensen, Rikke Vang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The aim of the study was to explore the potential of performance on a Danish sentence repetition (SR) task--including specific morphological and syntactic properties--to identify difficulties in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) relative to typically developing (TD) children. Furthermore, the potential of the task as a…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages), Verbs, Grammar