Sentence Repetition as a Clinical Marker of Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence From Arabic.
Purpose: Research on the typical and impaired grammatical acquisition of Arabic is limited. This study systematically examined the morphosyntactic abilities of Arabic-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) using a novel sentence repetition task. The usefulness of th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 64; no. 12; pp. 4876 - 4900 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=154172454&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 154172454 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: Dec2021 vid: 64 iid: 12 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 154172454 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00244 ppf: 4876 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Sentence Repetition as a Clinical Marker of Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence From Arabic. aug: au: Taha, Juhayna Stojanovik, Vesna Pagnamenta, Emma affil: School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, United Kingdom su: Language disorders Language acquisition Analysis of variance Arabs Multilingualism Comparative grammar Task performance Sentences (Grammar) Repetition (Learning process) Arabic language Language disorders in children Statistics Phonological awareness Speech evaluation Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Research funding Data analysis Child development deviations sug: subj: Language disorders Language acquisition Analysis of variance Arabs Multilingualism Comparative grammar Task performance Sentences (Grammar) Repetition (Learning process) Arabic language Language disorders in children Statistics Phonological awareness Speech evaluation Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Research funding Data analysis Child development deviations ab: Purpose: Research on the typical and impaired grammatical acquisition of Arabic is limited. This study systematically examined the morphosyntactic abilities of Arabic-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) using a novel sentence repetition task. The usefulness of the task as an indicator of DLD in Arabic was determined. Method: A LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings) sentence repetition task was developed in Palestinian Arabic (LITMUS-SR-PA-72) and administered to 30 children with DLD (M = 61.50 months, SD = 11.27) and 60 agematched typically developing (TD) children (M = 63.85 months, SD = 10.16). The task targeted grammatical structures known to be problematic for Arabicspeaking children with DLD (language specific) and children with DLD across languages (language independent). Responses were scored using binary, error, and structural scoring methods. Results: Children with DLD scored below TD children on the LITMUS-SR-PA-72, in general, and in the repetition of language-specific and language-independent structures. The frequency of morphosyntactic errors was higher in the DLD group relative to the TD group. Despite the large similarity of the type of morphosyntactic errors between the two groups, some atypical errors were exclusively produced by the DLD group. The three scoring methods showed good diagnostic power in the discrimination between children with DLD and children without DLD. Conclusions: Sentence repetition was an area of difficulty for Palestinian Arabic-speaking children with DLD. The DLD group demonstrated difficulties with language-specific and language-independent structures, particularly complex sentences with noncanonical word order. Most grammatical errors made by the DLD group resembled those of the TD group and were mostly omissions or substitutions of grammatical affixes or omissions of function words. SR appears to hold promise as a good indicator for the presence or absence of DLD in Arabic. Further validation of these findings using population-based studies is warranted. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.16968043 pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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