Chomskyan Syntactic Theory and Language Disorders

Clahsen, Harald

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“…Second, in the self-paced listening task, the children with SLI failed to notice omission of the suffix -t. We conclude that errors with subject-verb agreement in Dutch SLI may also be affected by impaired verb inflection representations, in particular of the -t suffix. The variability observed in our study is in line with Clahsen's (2008) claim that "agreement is not completely absent in SLI, but I the adult agreement paradigm seems to be incomplete with problems focusing on particular forms or verb classes" (p. 177).…”

Section: Causes Of Verb Inflection Errors In Dutch Slisupporting

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Production and Processing of Subject–Verb Agreement in Monolingual Dutch Children With Specific Language Impairment

Blom

Vasić²,

Jong³

2014

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: In this study, the authors investigated whether errors with subject-verb agreement in monolingual Dutch children with specific language impairment (SLI) are influenced by verb phonology. In addition, the productive and receptive abilities of Dutch acquiring children with SLI regarding agreement inflection were compared. Method: An SLI group (6-8 years old), an age-matched group with typical development, and a language-matched, younger, typically developing (TD) group participated in the study. Using an elicitation task, the authors tested use of third person singular inflection after verbs that ended in obstruents (plosive, fricative) or nonobstruents (sonorant). The authors used a self-paced listening task to test sensitivity to subject-verb agreement violations. Results: Omission was more frequent after obstruents than nonobstruents; the younger TD group used inflection less often after plosives than fricatives, unlike the SLI group. The SLI group did not detect subject-verb agreement violations if the ungrammatical structure contained a frequent error (omission), but if the ungrammatical structure contained an infrequent error (substitution), subject-verb agreement violations were noticed. Conclusions: The use of agreement inflection by children with TD or SLI is affected by verb phonology. Differential effects in the 2 groups are consistent with a delayed development in Dutch SLI. Parallels between productive and receptive abilities point to weak lexical agreement inflection representations in Dutch SLI.

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Section: Causes Of Verb Inflection Errors In Dutch Slisupporting

confidence: 90%

“…The observed variation would be compatible with the view that the impairment of agreement is present at the level of lexical knowledge (Clahsen, 2008). More specifically, verb inflection paradigms are incomplete in SLI (Leonard, 2007).…”

Section: Causes Of Verb Inflection Errors In Dutch Slisupporting

confidence: 84%

Production and Processing of Subject–Verb Agreement in Monolingual Dutch Children With Specific Language Impairment

Blom

Vasić²,

Jong³

2014

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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“…verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions. The symptoms of agrammatism commonly found in Broca's aphasia [13] such as telegraphic speech, omission of functional morphemes and preservation of content words [14][15][16] were evident in our case. In addition, as reported by Menn and Obler [17,18] regarding the significance of languagespecific features in determining patterns of omission and substitution, along with the general patterns of agrammatism, our study revealed some sorts of language def- icits specific to Kalhori which might be significant to research in aphasiology.…”

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Exploring Aphasia in Kalhori

Jalilian

Gheitury

Azari

2017

IRJ

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Objectives: Despite numerous studies conducted to explore the manifestations of aphasia in different languages of the world, language-specific patterns of aphasic patients in Kalhori as a southern dialect of Kurdish spoken in part of Kermanshah Province, Iran, remains largely unpacked. The present study aims at investigating language deficits of a forty-year-old Kurdish-Persian aphasic woman, here F. D., who was diagnosed with Broca's aphasia. Methods:To assess her linguistic competence, and more particularly, her knowledge of syntax and semantics, we administered a modified version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test in Kalhori. Results:Although she showed severe deficits in almost all modalities and levels examined, results indicated definiteness, prepositions and verb agreement with the subject as the most problematic areas.Discussion: While impairments to do with prepositions and parts of speech are expected features of aphasic patients, as far as the assessment of verbal morphology of Kalhori is concerned, results seem to replicate the results achieved by Nilipour et al. (2001) researching Persian bilingual aphasics.

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“…A common pattern can be identified in historically unrelated languages, suggesting difficulties in the conduction of computational operations predicted to be costly regardless of language (Adams, 1990;Friedmann and Novogrodsky, 2004;Jakubowicz, 2004;Leonard et al, 2006;van der Lely and Battell, 2003). At the same time, there are selective impairments suggesting difficulties specific to a syntactic domain (Clahsen, 1999(Clahsen, , 2008Hamann et al, 1998;Marinis and van der Lely, 2007), and cross-language variation that point to problems in the identification of the particular grammatical properties of a language (Leonard, 1992;Bottari et al, 1996;Clahsen et al, 1997;Jakubowicz, 2011;Jakubowicz et al, 1998). This picture of SLI has defied across-the-board explanations centered on either processing or representational difficulties (Leonard, 1989;Gopnik, 1990;Gopnik and Crago, 1991).…”

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confidence: 93%