Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years
Purpose: Clinical grammar markers are needed for children with SLI older than 8 years. This study followed children who were previously studied on sentences with omitted finiteness to determine if affected children continue to perform at low levels and to examine possible predictors of low performan...
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| author | Rice, Mabel L. Hoffman, Lesa |
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| description | Purpose: Clinical grammar markers are needed for children with SLI older than 8 years. This study followed children who were previously studied on sentences with omitted finiteness to determine if affected children continue to perform at low levels and to examine possible predictors of low performance. This is the first longitudinal report of grammaticality judgments of questions.
Method: Three groups of children participated: 20 SLI, 20 age controls, and 18 language-matched controls, followed from ages 6–15 years. An experimental grammaticality judgment task was administered with BE copula/auxiliary and DO auxiliary in wh- and yes/no questions for 9 times of measurement. Predictors were indices of vocabulary, nonverbal intelligence, and maternal education.
Results: Growth curve analyses show that the affected group performed below the younger controls at each time of measurement, for each variable. Growth analyses show linear and quadratic effects for both groups across variables, with the exception of BE acquisition, which was flat for both groups. The control children reached ceiling levels; the affected children reached a lower asymptote.
Conclusion: The results suggest an ongoing maturational lag in finiteness marking for affected children with promise as a clinical marker for language impairment in school-aged and adolescent children and probably adults as well. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/701382022-09-29T23:15:41Z Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years Rice, Mabel L. Hoffman, Lesa Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Wexler, Kenneth Wexler, Kenneth Purpose: Clinical grammar markers are needed for children with SLI older than 8 years. This study followed children who were previously studied on sentences with omitted finiteness to determine if affected children continue to perform at low levels and to examine possible predictors of low performance. This is the first longitudinal report of grammaticality judgments of questions. Method: Three groups of children participated: 20 SLI, 20 age controls, and 18 language-matched controls, followed from ages 6–15 years. An experimental grammaticality judgment task was administered with BE copula/auxiliary and DO auxiliary in wh- and yes/no questions for 9 times of measurement. Predictors were indices of vocabulary, nonverbal intelligence, and maternal education. Results: Growth curve analyses show that the affected group performed below the younger controls at each time of measurement, for each variable. Growth analyses show linear and quadratic effects for both groups across variables, with the exception of BE acquisition, which was flat for both groups. The control children reached ceiling levels; the affected children reached a lower asymptote. Conclusion: The results suggest an ongoing maturational lag in finiteness marking for affected children with promise as a clinical marker for language impairment in school-aged and adolescent children and probably adults as well. National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant P30DC005803) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant R01DC001803) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant R01DC005226) University of Kansas (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center Grant P30HD002528) 2012-04-25T20:20:00Z 2012-04-25T20:20:00Z 2009-12 2008-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1558-9102 1092-4388 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70138 Rice, M. L., L. Hoffman, and K. Wexler. “Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years: A Study of Growth and Asymptote.” Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 52.6 (2009): 1417–1433. Web. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6290-1160 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0171) Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf American Speech-Language-Hearing Association PubMed Central |
| spellingShingle | Rice, Mabel L. Hoffman, Lesa Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years |
| title | Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years |
| title_full | Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years |
| title_fullStr | Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years |
| title_full_unstemmed | Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years |
| title_short | Judgments of Omitted BE and DO in Questions as Extended Finiteness Clinical Markers of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to 15 Years |
| title_sort | judgments of omitted be and do in questions as extended finiteness clinical markers of specific language impairment sli to 15 years |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70138 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6290-1160 |
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