Longitudinal Grammaticality Judgments of Tense Marking in Complex Questions in Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment, Ages 5--18 Years.
Purpose: Identification of children with specific language impairment (SLI) can be difficult even though their language can lag that of age peers throughout childhood. A clinical grammar marker featuring tense marking in simple clauses is valid and reliable for young children but is limited by ceili...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 66; no. 10; pp. 3882 - 3907 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=172861990&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 172861990 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: Oct2023 vid: 66 iid: 10 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 172861990 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00507 ppf: 3882 ppct: 25 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.9MB tig: atl: Longitudinal Grammaticality Judgments of Tense Marking in Complex Questions in Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment, Ages 5--18 Years. aug: au: Rice, Mabel L. Earnest, Kathleen Kelsey Hoffman, Lesa affil: Child Language Doctoral Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence Language Acquisition Studies Laboratory, University of Kansas, Lawrence College of Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City su: Kansas Judgment (Psychology) Linguistics Child development Comparative grammar Task performance Sex distribution Intellect Phonetics Education of mothers Confidence intervals Descriptive statistics Research funding Language disorders in children Longitudinal method Secondary analysis sug: subj: Judgment (Psychology) Linguistics Child development Comparative grammar Task performance Sex distribution Intellect Phonetics Kansas Education of mothers Confidence intervals Descriptive statistics Research funding Language disorders in children Longitudinal method Secondary analysis ab: Purpose: Identification of children with specific language impairment (SLI) can be difficult even though their language can lag that of age peers throughout childhood. A clinical grammar marker featuring tense marking in simple clauses is valid and reliable for young children but is limited by ceiling effects around the age of 8 years. This study evaluated a new, more grammatically challenging complex sentence task in children affected or unaffected with SLI in longitudinal data, ages 5--18 years. Method: Four hundred eighty-three children (213 unaffected, 270 affected) between 5 and 18 years of age participated, following a rolling recruitment longitudinal design encompassing a total of 4,148 observations. The new experimental grammaticality judgment task followed linguistic concepts of syntactic sites for finiteness and movement within complex clauses. Growth modeling methods evaluated group differences over time for four different outcomes; three were hypothesized to evaluate optional omissions of overt finiteness forms in authorized sentence sites, and one evaluated an overt error of tense marking. Results: As in earlier studies of younger children, growth models for the SLI group were consistently lower than the unaffected group, although the growth trajectories across groups did not differ. The results replicated across four item types defined by omissions with minor differences for an item with an overt error of tense marking. Covariates of child nonverbal IQ, mother's education, and child sex did not significantly moderate these effects. Conclusion: The outcomes support the task as having potential screening value for identification of children with SLI and are consistent with linguistic interpretations of task demands. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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