Grammatical Gender in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Determiner-Noun Contexts in Greek
Τhe present study investigates whether Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) face difficulties in the acquisition of gender in determiner-noun contexts, as expressed via agreement οn the determiner. The results of an elicitation task with real and novel nouns showed that c...
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Τhe present study investigates whether Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) face difficulties in the acquisition of gender in determiner-noun contexts, as expressed via agreement οn the determiner. The results of an elicitation task with real and novel nouns showed that children with SLI (a) show difficulties primarily with masculine and feminine gender marking, and do not use prototypicality of the noun suffix, as typically developing children do, to mark the gender on the determiner in conditions with real nouns, and (b) do not use, with the same consistency as typically developing children do, the noun ending as a cue to mark the gender value on the determiner in conditions with novel nouns. It is argued that although grammatical gender is considered an intrinsic lexical property of the noun, it is not learned by children with SLI along with other lexical features of the noun. Moreover, when lexical information is not provided in the nouns, children with SLI cannot process morphology cues, such as the inflectional suffixes on the nouns, as consistently as typically developing children do.
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| spelling | doaj.art-52bdacda8b864618bc885d6101d940002022-12-22T02:49:47ZellNational Documentation CenterΨυχολογία: το Περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας1106-57372732-66402020-10-0120310.12681/psy_hps.23545Grammatical Gender in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Determiner-Noun Contexts in GreekSpyridoula VarlokostaMichaela Nerantzini Τhe present study investigates whether Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) face difficulties in the acquisition of gender in determiner-noun contexts, as expressed via agreement οn the determiner. The results of an elicitation task with real and novel nouns showed that children with SLI (a) show difficulties primarily with masculine and feminine gender marking, and do not use prototypicality of the noun suffix, as typically developing children do, to mark the gender on the determiner in conditions with real nouns, and (b) do not use, with the same consistency as typically developing children do, the noun ending as a cue to mark the gender value on the determiner in conditions with novel nouns. It is argued that although grammatical gender is considered an intrinsic lexical property of the noun, it is not learned by children with SLI along with other lexical features of the noun. Moreover, when lexical information is not provided in the nouns, children with SLI cannot process morphology cues, such as the inflectional suffixes on the nouns, as consistently as typically developing children do. https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/psychology/article/view/23545Specific language impairmentGender markingGender assignmentGender agreementDeterminerNoun |
| spellingShingle | Spyridoula Varlokosta Michaela Nerantzini Grammatical Gender in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Determiner-Noun Contexts in Greek Ψυχολογία: το Περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας Specific language impairment Gender marking Gender assignment Gender agreement Determiner Noun |
| title | Grammatical Gender in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Determiner-Noun Contexts in Greek |
| title_full | Grammatical Gender in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Determiner-Noun Contexts in Greek |
| title_fullStr | Grammatical Gender in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Determiner-Noun Contexts in Greek |
| title_full_unstemmed | Grammatical Gender in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Determiner-Noun Contexts in Greek |
| title_short | Grammatical Gender in Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Determiner-Noun Contexts in Greek |
| title_sort | grammatical gender in specific language impairment evidence from determiner noun contexts in greek |
| topic | Specific language impairment Gender marking Gender assignment Gender agreement Determiner Noun |
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