Morphosyntax in Poor Comprehenders.
Morphosyntax in Poor Comprehenders.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11145-015-9562-3
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发表时间：
2015-09
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Catts HW
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作者：
Adlof SM;Catts HW
被描述为理解能力差的儿童尽管具有足够的单词阅读能力，但仍存在阅读理解困难。众所周知，pc在语义和口语的高级方面表现出弱点，但对他们的语法技能，特别是在形态语法方面却知之甚少。本研究的目的是利用三个涉及有限标记的实验任务来研究四年级pc和典型发展的读者（td）的形态语法。参与者还完成了语音记忆、词汇和更广泛的语言技能的标准化、规范参考评估。与td相比，pc在所有三个形态语法任务和除了语音记忆之外的所有其他口头语言评估中都表现出劣势，这是通过非单词重复来索引的。这些发现有助于澄清pc的语言特征，表明他们的语言缺陷包括语法缺陷，这些缺陷不能完全用语义因素来解释。因为在典型的发展中，有限标记通常在正式学校教育之前就掌握了，我们呼吁未来的研究来检验形态语法的评估是否可以用于早期识别未来有阅读理解困难风险的儿童。
Children described as poor comprehenders (PCs) have reading comprehension difficulties in spite of adequate word reading abilities. PCs are known to display weakness with semantics and higher-level aspects of oral language, but less is known about their grammatical skills, especially with regard to morphosyntax. The purpose of this study was to examine morphosyntax in fourth grade PCs and typically developing readers (TDs), using three experimental tasks involving finiteness marking. Participants also completed standardized, norm-referenced assessments of phonological memory, vocabulary, and broader language skills. PCs displayed weakness relative to TDs on all three morphosyntax tasks and on every other assessment of oral language except phonological memory, as indexed by nonword repetition. These findings help to clarify the linguistic profile of PCs, suggesting that their language weaknesses include grammatical weaknesses that cannot be fully explained by semantic factors. Because finiteness markers are usually mastered prior to formal schooling in typical development, we call for future studies to examine whether assessments of morphosyntax could be used for the early identification of children at risk for future reading comprehension difficulty.