Cover Image
QR Code

Derivational morphology in children with grammatical-specific language impairment.

Although it is well-established that children with Specific Language Impairment characteristically optionally inflect forms that require tense and agreement marking, their abilities with regards to derivational suffixation are less well understood. In this paper we provide evidence from children wit...

Full description

Published in:Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 71 - 92
Main Authors: Marshall CR, van der Lely HKJ
Format: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2007
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106281314&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ccm
    uiTerm: 106281314
    longDbName: CINAHL Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    dissinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        02699206
        B6X
      jtl: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
      issn: 02699206
      maglogo: Y
    pubinfo:
      dt: Feb2007
      vid: 21
      iid: 2
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    artinfo:
      ui:
        106281314
        2009519084
        10.1080/02699200600594491
        NLM17364618
        106281314
      ppf: 71
      ppct: 21
      formats:
        fmt:
          @attributes:
            type: P
      tig:
        atl: Derivational morphology in children with grammatical-specific language impairment.
      aug:
        au:
          Marshall CR
          van der Lely HKJ
        affil: Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London, London, UK
      sug:
        subj:
          Grammar
          Language Disorders In Infancy and Childhood
          Adolescence
          Analysis of Variance
          Case Control Studies
          Child
          Descriptive Statistics
          Funding Source
          Intelligence Tests
          Language Tests
          Pictorial Methods
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Speech Acoustics
          Speech Production Measurement
          Human
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Child: 6-12 years
      ab: Although it is well-established that children with Specific Language Impairment characteristically optionally inflect forms that require tense and agreement marking, their abilities with regards to derivational suffixation are less well understood. In this paper we provide evidence from children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI) that derivational suffixes, unlike tense and agreement suffixes, are not omitted in elicitation tasks. We investigate two types of derivation - comparative/superlative formation and adjective-from-noun formation - and reveal that G-SLI children supply these suffixes at high rates, equivalent to their language matched peers. Moreover, increasing the phonological or morphological complexity of the stimulus does not trigger suffix omission, although it results in non-target forms that are not characteristic of typically developing children. We discuss what these results reveal about the nature of the deficit in G-SLI within the context of three hypotheses of SLI: the Extended Optional Infinitive, Implicit Rule and Computational Grammatical Complexity Hypotheses.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype:
        pictorial
        research
        tables/charts
        Journal Article
      ougenre: Article
    language: English
    refInfo:
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N