Grammatical morphology in language-impaired children acquiring English or German as their first language: A functional perspective  

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Johnston, Judith R. ; Lindner, Katrin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Psycholinguistics vol. 13 no. 2 (1992), page 115-130.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APP/13 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Fourteen matched pairs of German-speaking and English-speaking language-impaired children, aged 4;5-6; II, were tested for their knowledge of grammatical morphology and expressive vocabulary, using the Grammatical Closure subtest of the ITP A or its German adaptation, Grammatik in the PET, and the Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test or the Aktiver Wortschatztest. Children were matched pairwise on the basis of their chronological age, nonverbal IQ, and scores in a sentence imitation and a sentence production task. As predicted, the German-speaking language-impaired children earned higher scores in grammaticai morphology and vocabulary than did the English-speaking children. These findings add to a growing body of literature that documents language-specific sensitivity to particular sorts of syntactic devices. They also suggest that the morphological difficulties seen in Englishspeaking language-impaired children stem in part from the minor functional role played by these forms during the early language learning years.

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