The use of articles by Italian-speaking children with specific language impairment
The use of articles by Italian-speaking children with specific language impairment
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有特定语言障碍的意大利语儿童对文章的使用
DOI:
10.3109/02699209308985541
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Letizia Sabbadini
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作者:
L. Leonard;U. Bortolini;M. Cristina Caselli;Letizia Sabbadini
Although children with specific language impairment often show significant limitations in their use of grammatical morphemes, little is known about their use of morphemes that belong to a single set or paradigm. This question was pursued in the present study by examining specifically language-impaired (SLI) children's use of the Italian definite article system. Fifteen Italian-speaking SLI children were found to produce all articles with lower percentages than a group of 15 control children matched for mean utterance length. However, both groups had greater difficulty with plural articles than singular articles, and more difficulty using articles with restricted phonetic contexts than articles with a freer range of permissible contexts. In addition, the SLI children's difficulty with one of the articles seemed attributable to phonotactic constraints. The findings are interpreted within a framework that assumes that SLI children split and fill out morphological paradigms in the same manner as younger norma...