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Subject-Aux Inversion in Children with SLI.
Kelly Rombough1, Rosalind Thornton2
1Department of Cognitive Sciences, ARC Centre for Cognition and Its Disorders, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia. Kelly-ann.rombough@students.mq.edu.au.
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|April 5, 2019
Summary
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) struggle with subject-aux inversion in yes/no questions, possibly due to grammatical economy. However, they demonstrate understanding of complex question structures in other contexts.
Area of Science:
- Linguistics
- Developmental Psychology
- Child Language Acquisition
Background:
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI) affects language development in children.
- Subject-auxiliary (SAI) inversion is a key grammatical feature in English question formation.
- Understanding grammatical rule acquisition and exceptions is crucial for language development research.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate subject-auxiliary inversion in children with SLI.
- To compare the performance of children with SLI to typically developing peers.
- To explore the potential influence of input and grammatical complexity on SAI production.
Main Methods:
- An elicited production study was conducted.
- Participants included 5-year-old children with SLI, typically-developing 5-year-olds, and 3-year-olds matched for mean length of utterance.
- Children's production of subject-auxiliary inversion in yes/no and wh-questions (main and embedded clauses) was analyzed.
Main Results:
- Children with SLI produced significantly less subject-auxiliary inversion in yes/no questions compared to controls.
- Children with SLI showed no significant difference in subject-auxiliary inversion for main clause wh-questions.
- Children with SLI produced more subject-auxiliary inversion in embedded wh-questions than controls.
Conclusions:
- Children with SLI may favor economical grammatical options, impacting early question formation.
- The findings suggest children with SLI possess underlying syntactic representations for question formation.
- Children with SLI may exhibit a delay in learning exceptions to grammatical rules, such as SAI in embedded clauses.
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