Language-Specific Effects of Task Demands on the Manifestation of Specific Language Impairment: A Comparison of English and Icelandic.
Purpose: Previous research has indicated that the manifestation of specific language impairment (SU) varies according to factors such as language, age, and task. This study examined the effect of task demands on language production in children with SU cross-linguistically. Method: Icelandic- and Eng...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 922 - 938 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
August 2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=507992290&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 507992290 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: August 2008 vid: 51 iid: 4 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 507992290 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/068) ppf: 922 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 256KB tig: atl: Language-Specific Effects of Task Demands on the Manifestation of Specific Language Impairment: A Comparison of English and Icelandic. aug: au: Thordardottir, Elin su: English grammar Specific language impairment in children Children's language Comparative grammar Old Norse language Children with learning disabilities Psychology Child psychology Cross-cultural studies sug: subj: English grammar Specific language impairment in children Children's language Comparative grammar Old Norse language Children with learning disabilities Psychology Child psychology Cross-cultural studies ab: Purpose: Previous research has indicated that the manifestation of specific language impairment (SU) varies according to factors such as language, age, and task. This study examined the effect of task demands on language production in children with SU cross-linguistically. Method: Icelandic- and English-speaking school-age children with SU and normal language (NL) peers (n = 42) were administered measures of verbal working memory. Spontaneous language samples were collected in contexts that vary in task demands: conversation, narration, and expository discourse. The effect of the context-related task demands on the accuracy of grammatical inflections was examined. Results: Children with SU in both language groups scored significantly lower than their NL peers in verbal working memory. Nonword repetition scores correlated with morphological accuracy. In both languages, mean length of utterance (MLU) varied systematically across sampling contexts. Context exerted a significant effect on the accuracy of grammatical inflection in English only. Error rates were higher overall in English than in Icelandic, but whether the difference was significant depended on the sampling context. Errors in Icelandic involved verb and noun phrase inflection to a similar extent. Conclusions: The production of grammatical morphology appears to be more taxing for children with SU who speak English than for those who speak Icelandic. Thus, whereas children with SU in both language groups evidence deficits in language processing, cross-linguistic differences are seen in which linguistic structures are vulnerable when processing load is increased. Future research should carefully consider the effect of context on children's language performance. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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