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Verb inflection in German-learning children with typical and atypical language acquisition: the impact of subsyllabic frequencies
- Source :
- Journal of Child Language. 40:169-192
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012.
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Abstract
- Previous research has shown that high phonotactic frequencies facilitate the production of regularly inflected verbs in English-learning children with specific language impairment (SLI) but not with typical development (TD). We asked whether this finding can be replicated for German, a language with a much more complex inflectional verb paradigm than English. Using an elicitation task, the production of inflected nonce verb forms (3rd person singular with -t suffix) with either high- or low-frequency subsyllables was tested in sixteen German-learning children with SLI (ages 4;1–5;1), sixteen TD-children matched for chronological age (CA) and fourteen TD-children matched for verbal age (VA) (ages 3;0–3;11). The findings revealed that children with SLI, but not CA- or VA-children, showed differential performance between the two types of verbs, producing more inflectional errors when the verb forms resulted in low-frequency subsyllables than when they resulted in high-frequency subsyllables, replicating the results from English-learning children.
- Subjects :
- Male
Linguistics and Language
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Verb
Specific language impairment
Language Development
Language and Linguistics
German
Phonetics
Germany
Inflection
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Language Development Disorders
General Psychology
Language
Language Tests
Modal verb
medicine.disease
Language acquisition
language.human_language
Linguistics
Language development
Case-Control Studies
Child, Preschool
language
Female
Suffix
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14697602 and 03050009
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Child Language
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dbc4be177959e51250ae33e74712e50c