Specific Language Impairment in African American English and Southern White English: Measures of Tense and Agreement With Dialect-Informed Probes and Strategic Scoring.
Purpose: In African American English and Southern White English, we examined whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) overtly mark tense and agreement structures at lower percentages than typically developing (TD) controls, while also examining the effects of dialect, structure, and...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 62; no. 9; pp. 3443 - 3462 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=138842101&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 138842101 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2019 vid: 62 iid: 9 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 138842101 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-19-0089 ppf: 3443 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Specific Language Impairment in African American English and Southern White English: Measures of Tense and Agreement With Dialect-Informed Probes and Strategic Scoring. aug: au: Oetting, Janna B. Berry, Jessica R. Gregory, Kyomi D. Rivière, Andrew M. McDonald, Janet affil: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Speech Pathology and Audiology Department, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg Communication Sciences and Disorders Program, Pace University, New York, NY Sentara Enterprises, Woodbridge, VA Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge su: Southern States United States Black English Language disorders Language & languages Linguistics Comparative grammar Dialects White people Children English dialects Tense (Grammar) Research funding Medical coding sug: subj: Black English Language disorders Language & languages Linguistics Comparative grammar Dialects White people Children Southern States United States English dialects Tense (Grammar) Research funding Medical coding ab: Purpose: In African American English and Southern White English, we examined whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) overtly mark tense and agreement structures at lower percentages than typically developing (TD) controls, while also examining the effects of dialect, structure, and scoring approach. Method: One hundred six kindergartners completed 4 dialectinformed probes targeting 8 tense and agreement structures. The 3 scoring approaches varied in the treatment of nonmainstream English forms and responses coded as Other (i.e., those not obligating the target structure). The unmodified approach counted as correct only mainstream overt forms out of all responses, the modified approach counted as correct all mainstream and nonmainstream overt forms and zero forms out of all responses, and the strategic approach counted as correct all mainstream and nonmainstream overt forms out of all responses except those coded as Other. Results: With the probes combined and separated, the unmodified and strategic scoring approaches showed lower percentages of overt marking by the SLI groups than by the TD groups; this was not always the case for the modified scoring approach. With strategic scoring and dialect-specific cut scores, classification accuracy (SLI vs. TD) was highest for the 8 individual structures considered together, the past tense probe, and the past tense probe irregular items. Dialect and structure effects and dialect differences in classification accuracy also existed. Conclusions: African American English- and Southern White English-speaking kindergartners with SLI overtly mark tense and agreement at lower percentages than same dialect-speaking TD controls. Strategic scoring of dialectinformed probes targeting tense and agreement should be pursued in research and clinical practice. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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