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- Title
Grammaticality differences between Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment and their typically developing peers.
- Authors
Jackson‐Maldonado, Donna; Maldonado, Ricardo
- Abstract
Background A limited number of studies have analyzed grammaticality in monolingual Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI). Most of the available data are based on bilingual speakers. Aims To extend previous studies by doing a more detailed analysis of grammatical types in monolingual Spanish-speakers with and without SLI. Methods & Procedures Forty-nine Spanish-speaking children (18 with SLI, 17 age-matched typically developing controls, 14 language-matched controls) were recruited from schools in Mexico and observed in a spontaneous narrative task. Outcomes & Results The findings were inconsistent with those of previous studies. Significant differences were found for article, connector and preposition omissions, and the per cent of ungrammatical utterances. There were no significant differences found for clitics and verb phrases, though clitic substitutions were frequent. Language-matched controls did not produce different frequencies of ungrammatical utterances. Conclusions & Implications Significant differences were found for three main items: the per cent of ungrammatical utterances, the omission of articles and the omission of prepositions. Therefore, we propose these components be taken into consideration when distinguishing typically developing children from children with SLI.
- Subjects
MEXICO; GRAMMATICALITY (Linguistics); LANGUAGE disorders; COMPARATIVE grammar; SPANISH language; LANGUAGE acquisition; CHILDREN; CHILD development; COMPARATIVE studies; INTELLECT; INTELLIGENCE tests; LANGUAGE disorders in children; PROBABILITY theory; SPEECH evaluation; T-test (Statistics); VOCABULARY; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MEAN length of utterance; MANN Whitney U Test
- Publication
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017, Vol 52, Issue 6, p750
- ISSN
1368-2822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1460-6984.12312