Language behavior by mildly handicapped and nonretarded children on complement clauses
1Psychological Laboratory, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Abstract:
Comprehension of complement clauses embedded into four matrix verbs in Greek, equivalent to English in syntactic and semantic constraints, was investigated with mildly handicapped (MH) and nonretarded children (NR). The results suggest that: (a) the MH children use the same syntactic information in comprehension of complement clauses as the NR children, (b) verbal MA cannot best predict linguistic performance by MH and NR children. (c) Digit Span does not correlate with comprehension nor does verbal IQ in MH., (d) Digit Span and verbal IQ are significantly correlated with NR children's comprehension, (e) the psychological status of the minimal distance principle (MDP) is debatable, while the semantic role principle (SRP) is partially supported by the data, (f) MH children lack metalinguistic ability compared to young NR children.
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