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Syntactic gender agreement processing on direct object clitics by Spanish-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from ERP ...
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Syntactic gender agreement processing on direct object clitics by Spanish-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from ERP ...
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Some Existential Interpretations: The Role of Pitch and Duration in the English Quantity Implicature
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Child Spanish Lexicon and Morphosyntax as a Predictor of Inhibition
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Multiple Measures of Numerical Cognition and Quantifier Interpretation
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Dialect Variation, Multiple Measures of Inhibition, and Collective-Distributive Quantifier Interpretation
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Pragmatic Factors Influencing Existential Determiners in Child Spanish
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Competence and Performance in Distributive/Collective Interpretations of Quantifiers in Child English and Spanish
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Understanding Pragmatic Language Development: Comparing Adults and Children
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Understanding Pragmatic Language Development: Comparing Adults and Children
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Analyzing semantic-pragmatic processing of scalar implicatures in typically-developing children
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The Effects of Maternal Level of Education on Syntactic Development
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Spontaneous Speech Measures and Tense Marking in Spanish SLI
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Abstract:
Language development is measured in various ways. Research into specific language impairment (SLI) has shown that English-speaking children have severe difficulties producing and judging the grammaticality of tense-related morphology. This has been less clear for child Spanish. Another line of research into SLI in child Spanish has shown that various measures of spontaneous language can be useful in identifying children with SLI. A classical measure, mean length of utterance (MLU), was developed in English. In spite of MLU’s utility for understanding the development of the English language in children, inconsistencies still exist in other languages. In this project, we test both the tense-marking abilities and a range of spontaneous language measures of a sample of Spanish-speaking children in Mexico City (n=55), 26 of whom are identified with SLI. The aim of this study is to determine the adaptability of MLU in order to predict morphosyntactic development in Spanish. Furthermore, the study determined that MLU can distinguish typically-developing (TD) monolingual Spanish-speaking children, from children with specific language impairment (SLI). In this study, eight different measures of language development were examined: MLU word, MLU morpheme, MLU verb phrase, number of different words (NDW), subordination index, mean length of terminable units (MLTU), grammatical errors per t-unit, and type/token ratio (TTR). All measures are statistically significant in distinguishing between TD and SLI children except for grammatical errors per t-unit, which was expected. If children with SLI can be diagnosed earlier with the help of these measures, they may benefit from early intervention and may be less likely to develop dyslexia or more severe reading difficulties. ; Undergraduate Research Scholarship ; Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship ; A three-year embargo was granted for this item.
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MLU; monolingual Spanish-speaking children; SLI; spontaneous speech measures; tense marking
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/63977
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