The comprehension and production of Wh- questions among Malay children with developmental language disorders: Climbing the syntactic tree

Bakar, Norsofiah Abu; Smith, Giuditta; Razak, Rogayah A.; Garraffa, Maria

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.948992

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“…), and A' movement operations, e.g. wh-questions (Stavrakaki 2006;Hamann 2006;Jakubowicz 2011;Arosio & Guasti 2019;Abu Bakar et al 2022;a.o), as well as relative clauses (Håkansson & Hansson 2000;Stavrakaki 2002;Novogrodsky & Friedmann 2006;Contemori & Garaffa 2010;De López et al 2014;Rakhlin et al 2016;Wada et al 2020;Wang & Yu 2021;2022;a.o. ) In the literature, we find different models accounting for the grammatical deficit of children with DLD and for their pattern of development of complex syntactic structures.…”

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The production of relative clauses in Italian-speaking children with DLD

Arosio,

Silleresi,

Guasti

2024

isogloss

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Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have been shown to struggle with the acquisition of complex structures requiring structural embedding and movement of a sentential element from its original position. This study examines the production of subject and object relative clauses (RCs) by Italian children, investigating whether: i) seven-year-old children with DLD are impaired in embedding or movement operations; ii) specific factors, such as animacy of the arguments, affect the production of sentences with movement and embedding, iii) the linguistic profile of children with DLD is qualitatively different from that of typically developing (TD) children. We elicited the production of RCs with animate and inanimate arguments in 12 Italian-speaking children with DLD (mean age = 7;2) and in two TD control groups: age matched (AM) and language matched (LM). Children with DLD produced fewer RCs than either control group and made different errors, showing a slightly different developmental path. Animacy mismatch did not improve RC production in any group. Results suggest that seven-year-old children with DLD are in a transitional stage: they can use embedding but still have difficulties with movement operations, especially in object RCs. This indicates that the language competence of children with DLD improves with age, but long-distance dependencies continue to be challenging.

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The production of relative clauses in Italian-speaking children with DLD

Arosio,

Silleresi,

Guasti

2024

isogloss

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Comprehension of wh-questions among Jordanian children with autism spectrum disorder and specific language impairment

Issa,

Ying,

Azam

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This study investigates the comprehension of wh-questions among Jordanian Arabic-speaking children by comparing both (subject and object) “which” and “who” questions. The sample consisted of 45 Jordanian children: 15 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 15 with specific developmental language impairment (SDLI) and 15 typically developing (TD) children aged between 6 and 8 years. To achieve the objectives of this study, a binary task consisting of pictures with two-figure selection and pictures with three-figure selection was used. To analyze the data, a one-way repeated measures ANOVA was used to examine the comprehension of wh-questions among the three groups. The findings revealed that the ASD and SDLI groups performed better in subject wh-questions compared to object wh-questions. Moreover, the study also found that “which” questions constituted a problem for both ASD and SDLI Jordanian children. In addition, earlier grammatical competence acquired by children with ASD and SDLI (i.e., word order) guides their later wh-question comprehension. ASD and SDLI children showed impairment in answering subject and object questions. Meanwhile, the TD children showed better performance in who and which questions, although they exhibited difficulty in understanding object questions compared to subject questions. The conclusions indicate that the SDLI group performed better than the ASD group in terms of the number of correct answers and comprehension of wh-questions, while The ASD group performed better in the three-figures tasks over the two-figure tasks, in contrast to the children in the other groups, who performed better in the two-figure tasks.

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Grammar in Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review from the Last 10 Years

Smith,

Janetti,

Sarin

et al. 2023

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Little is known of the trajectory of grammar in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) once adulthood and language maturity are reached. Yet, impairments in grammar are reported in children with both communication NDDs, such as Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), and other NDDs, including ASD and ADHD. In the present study, we review studies collected in the last ten years on the grammar of adults with NDDs. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines were applied. Included studies assessed sentence-level grammatical abilities through quantitative experiments on adults with a diagnosis of a developmental disorder. Out of 1550 contributions, 29 were selected. The studies included in the review showed that individuals with NDDs show a language deficit when compared to healthy adults. However, a lack of a unified approach to investigations of grammar prevents comparisons on the nature of the language disorder across NDDs, consequently highlighting the existence of a gap in knowledge. This gap must be filled to the benefit of speech pathologists and, ultimately, their patients.

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The comprehension and production of Wh- questions among Malay children with developmental language disorders: Climbing the syntactic tree

Cited by 3 publications

References 42 publications

The production of relative clauses in Italian-speaking children with DLD

The production of relative clauses in Italian-speaking children with DLD

Comprehension of wh-questions among Jordanian children with autism spectrum disorder and specific language impairment

Grammar in Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Scoping Review from the Last 10 Years

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