Developmental perspectives on Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from the production of wh-questions by Greek SLI children over time

Stavrakaki, Stavroula

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“…This competence is robust across languages despite variations in vocabulary and features to be learnt (Hamann, 2006;Jakubowicz and Strik, 2008;Stavrakaki, 2006;Weissenborn et al, 1995). This is not so, however, for children with SLI.…”

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“…Furthermore, additional error types, such as wh-in-situ preference in French and case errors in Greek, are attested cross-linguistically. Interestingly, such errors can also be accounted for by an impairment in movement (Hamann, 2006;Stavrakaki, 2006). Papers in this special issue eloquently provide details of the most recent studies in this area, and the reader is directed to these papers (de Villiers et al, 2011;Friedmann and Novogrodsky, 2011;Jakubowicz, 2011;Schulz and Roeper, 2011. Following up on our initial elicitation data, van der Lely and colleagues used an on-line cross-modal priming study to tease apart the representations/mechanisms that were implemented during the on-line processing of questions .…”

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“…investigations of wh-questions in SLI in languages as diverse as English, Hebrew, French, Swedish, Greek, and Chinese (Deevy and Leonard, 2004;Friedmann and Novogrodsky, 2007;Hamann, 2006;Hansson and Nettelbladt, 2006;Stavrakaki, 2006;Wong et al, 2004). Where the language investigated incurs wh-trace dependencies, wh-questions are uniformly found to be significantly impaired in children with SLI.…”

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“…Such processes include working memory, processing speed or capacity, processing at the interface, and knowledge outside the syntactic system (pragmatics/world knowledge). Thus, the aim of this study is to further distinguish whether the SLI children's impairment in wh-questions lies in the syntactic computational system itself (Friedmann and Novogrodsky, 2007;van der Lely, 2005;van der Lely and Battell, 2003), or outside the language faculty (Deevy and Leonard, 2004;Jakubowicz and Strik, 2008;Stavrakaki, 2006;Wong et al, 2004). Before discussing some of the different theories proposed for SLI, we discuss previous research that has investigated wh-questions in children with SLI.…”

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Who did Buzz see someone? Grammaticality judgement of wh-questions in typically developing children and children with Grammatical-SLI

Lely¹,

Jones²,

Marshall³

2011

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This paper tests claims that children with Grammatical(G)-SLI are impaired in hierarchical structural dependencies at the clause level and in whatever underlies such dependencies with respect to movement, chain formation and feature checking; that is, their impairment lies in the syntactic computational system itself (the Computational Grammatical Complexity hypothesis proposed by van der Lely in previous work). We use a grammaticality judgement task to test whether G-SLI children's errors in wh-questions are due to the hypothesised impairment in syntactic dependencies at the clause level or lie in more general processes outside the syntactic system, such as working memory capacity. We compare the performance of 14 G-SLI children (aged 10–17 years) with that of 36 younger language-matched controls (aged 5–8 years). We presented matrix wh-subject and object questions balanced for wh-words (who/what/which) that were grammatical, ungrammatical, or semantically inappropriate. Ungrammatical questions contained wh-trace or T-to-C dependency violations that G-SLI children had previously produced in elicitation tasks. G-SLI children, like their language controls, correctly accepted grammatical questions, but rejected semantically inappropriate ones. However, they were significantly impaired in rejecting wh-trace and T-to-C dependency violations. The findings provide further support for the CGC hypothesis that G-SLI children have a core deficit in the computational system itself that affects syntactic dependencies at the clause level.

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Who did Buzz see someone? Grammaticality judgement of wh-questions in typically developing children and children with Grammatical-SLI

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Jones²,

Marshall³

2011

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“…They avoid the production of Wh questions, and produce non-target questions (see also de Villiers et al, 2011). Both subject and object questions are difficult to produce, but object questions show even poorer performance (Ebbels and van der Lely, 2001;Stavrakaki, 2006). The manifestation of this difficulty differs between languages: French-speaking children with SLI use in-situ Wh-words instead of Wh fronted questions in spontaneous speech and in elicited production tasks (Hamann, 2005;Jakubowicz, 2011;Jakubowicz and Gutierrez, 2007); English-speaking children produce Wh questions with filled gap, mainly in object questions (e.g., ''What did Mrs. Brown break something?…”

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