MORPHOLOGICAL DEFICITS IN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT

有特殊语言障碍的儿童通常表现出特别的 严重限制了语法词法的使用。这些 困难包括绑定语素的问题，如过去时和 第三人称单数变化和虚词，如冠词 和助动词。这个项目的目的是探索 这些语法语素限制的可能基础，并考察 这些限制可能会阻碍这些孩子的其他方面 语言发展。 要实现这一总体目标，特别是语言障碍(SLI) 儿童对语法语素的理解和产生将是 考察了四种不同的语言：英语、希伯来语、意大利语和 瑞典人。来自这些不同语言的数据将用于评估 说英语的SLI最近的三个账户的相对充分性 儿童的形态问题。因为形态上的 这些语言的性质在关键方面与英语的不同 方法，他们提供了一个更清晰的观点，这些因素的贡献 用英语混淆，从而促进对数据的解释 从说英语的SLI儿童那里获得。包括这些内容 其他语言也将允许对是否存在问题进行更强有力的测试 语序与词法上的缺陷有关。一种对 系统性红斑狼疮儿童形态问题的根源及其作用 在语言的其他领域玩问题应该会导致更合适的 这些儿童的治疗程序。

Children with specific language impairment often show an especially serious limitation in the use of grammatical morphology. These difficulties include problems with bound morphemes such as past tense and third person singular inflections, and function words such as articles and auxiliary verbs. The purpose of this project is to explore the possible bases of these grammatical morpheme limitations, and to examine how such limitations may hinder other aspects of these children's language development. To accomplish this general goal, specifically language-impaired (SLI) children's comprehension and production of grammatical morphemes will be examined across four different languages: English, Hebrew, Italian, and Swedish. Data from these different languages will be used to assess the relative adequacy of three recent accounts of English-speaking SLI children's problems with morphology. Because the morphological properties of these languages differ from those of English in critical ways, they offer a clearer view of the contribution of factors that are confounded in English, thereby facilitating interpretation of the data obtained from the English-speaking SLI children. Inclusion of these other languages will also permit a stronger test of whether problems in word order are related to deficits in morphology. An understanding of the source of SLI children's problems with morphology and the role these problems play in other areas of language should lead to more appropriate treatment procedures for these children.