Use of noun morphology by children with language impairment: the case of Hungarian

Lukács, Ágnes; Leonard, Laurence B.; Kas, Bence

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“…Studies on children speaking Germanic languages such as English (Oetting and Rice 1993), Dutch (Boerma et al 2017;Kuipers 2011), and German (Schöler and Kürsten 1995) have reported that plural formation is less problematic than tense, even though children with SLI have a depressed performance compared with their monolingual typically developing (mo-TD) age-matched peers. This contrasts with studies on Icelandic and Hungarian (Thordardottir 2008, Lukács et al 2010, where mo-SLI children either performed similarly on verbal and nominal morphemes (Thordardottir 2008) or they did not differ from their TD peers (Lukács et al 2010;Thordardottir 2016). In these languages, verbal and nominal morphemes are acquired early by TD children.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…This study further revealed that the acquisition of the Welsh plural system is particularly problematic for children with SLI, who differed significantly from their TD peers. This is on a par with the findings in languages with equally complex plural systems (Arabic or Hebrew) (Abdalla et al 2013), but differs from the studies in Icelandic (Thordardottir 2008) and Hungarian (Lukács et al 2010), where mo-SLI children were reported to have less pronounced problems with plural morphology, if at all (Thordardottir 2016). The differences may be due to at least two reasons.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…This contrasts with studies on Icelandic and Hungarian (Thordardottir , , Lukács et al . ), where mo‐SLI children either performed similarly on verbal and nominal morphemes (Thordardottir ) or they did not differ from their TD peers (Lukács et al . ; Thordardottir ).…”

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“…), where mo‐SLI children either performed similarly on verbal and nominal morphemes (Thordardottir ) or they did not differ from their TD peers (Lukács et al . ; Thordardottir ). In these languages, verbal and nominal morphemes are acquired early by TD children.…”

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Tense and plural formation in Welsh–English bilingual children with and without language impairment

Chondrogianni

John

2018

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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By focusing on aspects of morphosyntactic development which are unique to Welsh, we have increased existing about how verbal and nominal morphology are acquired in Welsh-speaking bi-SLI and bi-TD children. The present results point towards productivity problems for Welsh-speaking bi-SLI children who are adversely influenced by low-frequency structures and fail to over-regularize in the context of verbal and nominal concatenating morphology. From a clinical perspective, targeting synthetic past-tense forms through a prompting task may be a promising assessment and intervention tool that future studies could explore further.

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Tense and plural formation in Welsh–English bilingual children with and without language impairment

Chondrogianni

John

2018

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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“…Within the agglutinating languages of Finnish and Hungarian, children with DLD do not show errors of suffix order (e.g., Lukács et al . 2010). Children with DLD acquiring English adhere quite well to canonical subject–verb–object order.…”

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Production of noun suffixes by Turkish‐speaking children with developmental language disorder and their typically developing peers

Güven

Leonard

2020

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background: Turkish has a rich system of noun suffixes, and although its complex suffixation system may seem daunting, it can actually present a learning opportunity for children. Despite its unique features, Turkish has not been studied extensively, especially in the case of children with language deficits, such as developmental language disorder (DLD). Most of the extant studies are focused on bilingual children, and the results are somewhat mixed. Aims: To focus on the noun morphology system of Turkish-speaking preschoolers with DLD and compare their use with that of two groups of typically developing (TD) children. Moreover, to investigate the nature of their noun suffix errors in detail. Methods & Procedures:We report data from a total of 80 monolingual children, 40 children with DLD (age range = 4;0-7;10), 20 TD age-matched children (4;0-7;3) and 20 younger mean length of utterance (MLU)-matched children (2;0-4;3). The data for this study came from language samples obtained from children in individual clinical assessment sessions.Outcomes & Results: The children with DLD made less use of noun suffixes than both the younger and the age-matched TD children. The use of the unmarked (nominative case) form in place of an overt suffix was the most likely error by all groups. Suffix-change alternations required beyond vowel harmony seemed to pose real problems for these children.Conclusions & Implications: These results suggest that even when a language appears to provide significant advantages for the learning of noun morphology, children with DLD do not succeed in closing the gap. Certain factors such as morphophonological changes beyond vowel harmony, multiple allomorphs for the same suffix type and accusative suffixes that are not uniformly applied in the adult input were found to be significant predictors of the DLD group's difficulty with noun suffixes. Because these same factors can serve as characteristics of other languages, a child's difficulties might seem to be language specific (e.g., a particular allomorph in the language), but may actually be based on a broader difficulty (e.g., dealing with multiple allomorphs for the same suffix). Accordingly, factors that transcend a single language should be considered during clinical assessment and therapy. What are some of the clinical applications of this study?r For clinicians who work with Turkish-speaking children with DLD, priority should be given to morphophonology. These children would benefit from treatment that focuses on how to attach different allomorphs to different open-class words. Because factors such as morphophonological complexity operate in other languages, the findings have broader clinical implications. In particular, regardless of the target language, clinicians should consider the possibility that these broader factors, rather than language-specific details, are the basis for a child's difficulty.

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The Early Acquisition of Morphology in Agglutinating Languages: The Case of Hungarian

Gervain

2021

Language, Cognition, and Mind

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Use of noun morphology by children with language impairment: the case of Hungarian

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Tense and plural formation in Welsh–English bilingual children with and without language impairment

Tense and plural formation in Welsh–English bilingual children with and without language impairment

Production of noun suffixes by Turkish‐speaking children with developmental language disorder and their typically developing peers

The Early Acquisition of Morphology in Agglutinating Languages: The Case of Hungarian

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