The sentence repetition task: A powerful diagnostic tool for French children with specific language impairment
The sentence repetition task: A powerful diagnostic tool for French children with specific language impairment
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ridd.2014.08.026
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
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3.1
通讯作者：
Maillart, Christelle
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作者：
Leclercq, Anne-Lise;Quemart, Pauline;Maillart, Christelle
本研究评估的诊断准确性和结构效度的句子重复任务，通常用于识别特定的语言障碍（SLI）的法国儿童。34名学龄儿童与确认，诊断为基础的诊断SLI，和34名对照组儿童的年龄和非语言能力相匹配的句子重复任务。两个一般的评分措施考虑到逐字重复的句子和准确重复的单词数量。此外，其他五个评分措施，以分别考虑到他们的词汇项目，功能项目，句法，动词形态，和句子的一般意义的回答。结果显示，所有评分措施在三个临界点的灵敏度和特异性水平从好到高。主成分分析揭示了两个因素。功能词，句法和动词形态方面的评分措施提供了最大的负荷第一个因素，而词汇和一般语义方面的评分措施提供了最大的负荷第二个因素。句子重复似乎是一个有价值的工具，以确定SLI在法国的儿童，并正确地重复句子的能力是由两个因素支持：一个morphosyntagic因素和词汇因素。(C)2014爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
This study assesses the diagnostic accuracy and construct validity of a sentence repetition task that is commonly used for the identification of French children with specific language impairment (SLI). Thirty-four school-aged children with a confirmed, diagnostically based diagnosis of SLI, and 34 control children matched on age and nonverbal abilities performed the sentence repetition task. Two general scoring measures took into account the verbatim repetition of the sentence and the number of words accurately repeated. Moreover, five other scoring measures were applied to their answers in order to separately take into account their respect of lexical items, functional items, syntax, verb morphology, and the general meaning of the sentence. Results show good to high levels of sensitivity and specificity at the three cut-off points for all scoring measures. A principal component analysis revealed two factors. Scoring measures for the respect of functional words, syntax and verb morphology provided the largest loadings to the first factor, while scoring measures for the respect of lexical words and general semantics provided the largest loadings to the second factor. Sentence repetition appears to be a valuable tool to identify SLI in French children, and the ability to repeat sentences correctly is supported by two factors: a morphosyntactic factor and a lexical factor. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.