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Verb use in specific language impairment

G Conti-Ramsden1, M Jones

  • 1Centre for Educational Needs, School of Education, University of Manchester, England. Gina.Conti-Ramsden@man.ac.uk

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR
|February 12, 1998
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Children with specific language impairment (SLI) use verbs less often and rely more on input than their peers. Difficulties with auxiliary verbs contribute to incorrect verb stem usage in young children with SLI.

Area of Science:

  • Child Language Acquisition
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Specific Language Impairment (SLI) affects language development in children.
  • Verbs and verb morphology are crucial for language acquisition.
  • Children with SLI may exhibit specific challenges with verb usage.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To profile early word combinations in children with SLI using longitudinal data.
  • To compare verb and verb morphology use in children with SLI versus MLU-matched peers.
  • To investigate the role of verbs in SLI language development.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal home-based video recordings of three children with SLI over two years.
  • Comparison with MLU-matched normal language-learning children from a control database.

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  • Detailed linguistic analysis focusing on verb and verb morphology usage.

    • Main Results:

    • Children with SLI used verbs less frequently and nouns more frequently than controls.
    • Increased input dependency and higher rates of incorrect verb bare stem usage were observed in children with SLI.
    • Difficulties with auxiliary verbs appeared to contribute to incorrect bare stem usage.

    Conclusions:

    • Children with SLI demonstrate distinct patterns in early verb use, including less frequent verb use and greater reliance on input.
    • Specific difficulties with auxiliary verbs impact verb morphology accuracy in SLI.
    • Findings contribute to understanding SLI language development and theories like the 'critical mass' hypothesis.