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Chloë R Marshall¹

¹Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University of London, , 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences

|December 11, 2013

Summary

Children with developmental language impairments exhibit specific errors in word production, including lexical retrieval and complex form generation. Models must explain these errors across spoken and signed languages.

Keywords:

British sign language derivational morphology lexical retrieval nonword repetition specific language impairment word production

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Area of Science:

Linguistics
Developmental Psychology
Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

Developmental language impairments affect word production in children.
Understanding these errors is crucial for effective intervention.
Existing models may not fully account for cross-modal data.

Purpose of the Study:

To review errors in word production by children with developmental language impairments.
To examine tasks involving lexical retrieval, derivationally complex forms, and non-sense form repetition.
To assess the explanatory power of word production models across speech and sign language modalities.

Main Methods:

Literature review of studies on children with specific language impairment.
Analysis of data from English-speaking children and deaf British Sign Language users.
Focus on errors in lexical retrieval, derivation, and non-sense word repetition.

Main Results:

Children with developmental language impairments show distinct error patterns in word production tasks.
These patterns are observed in both spoken and signed language acquisition.
Specific challenges exist in retrieving words and producing complex morphological forms.

Conclusions:

Word production models require refinement to encompass errors in developmental language impairments.
Models must demonstrate explanatory power across both spoken and signed modalities.
Further research is needed to integrate findings from different language modalities.