Characteristics of Case Marking on a Sentence Completion Task in Japanese Children with Specific Language Impairment

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Aimi Murao ◽  
Tomohiko Ito
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Case Marking ◽  
Completion Task

Grammatical errors in specific language impairment: Competence or performance limitations?

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. V. M. Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Morphological Markers ◽  
Random Errors ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Case Marking ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Almost All

ABSTRACTSpeech samples from twelve 8- to 12-year-old children with specific language impairment (SLI) were analyzed. The feature deficit hypothesis maintains that SLI children may produce morphological markers (e.g., plural -s) correctly, but they do not appreciate their role in marking grammatical features. Rather, they treat them as meaningless phonological variants. Findings from the present study were incompatible with this hypothesis: (a) production of morphological markers was not random; errors were unidirectional, in almost all cases involving omission of an inflection in an obligatory context; (b) overregularization errors were sometimes observed; (c) grammatical features differed in difficulty; (d) substitution of stems for inflected forms occurred with irregular as well as regular verbs; and (e) errors of pronoun case marking were common and always involved producing an accusative form in a context demanding the nominative. Children who used a specific inflectional form correctly in some utterances omitted it in others, suggesting a limitation of performance rather than competence. There were few obvious differences between utterances that did and did not include correctly inflected forms, though there was a trend for grammatical errors to occur on words that occurred later in an utterance. It is suggested that slowed processing in a limited capacity system that is handling several operations in parallel may lead to the omission of grammatical morphemes.

scholarly journals Comprehension and production of relative clauses: a comparison between Swedish impaired and unimpaired children

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
GISELA HÅKANSSON ◽  
KRISTINA HANSSON
Keyword(s):  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Relative Clauses ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Target Structure ◽  
Elicited Imitation ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between language comprehension and language production in Swedish children. This was done longitudinally with 10 children with specific language impairment (SLI), aged 4;0 to 6;3 at Time I, and 10 children with unimpaired language development, aged 3;1 to 3;7 at Time I. The target structure was subordination, more precisely relative clauses. The children's comprehension was tested with picture pointing, act-out and oral response tests. Their production was tested with elicited imitation and sentence completion tests. Data were collected twice, with an interval of six months. The results from the unimpaired children at Time I showed a difference between comprehension and production. At Time II these children scored higher on production than on comprehension. The children with SLI scored significantly higher on comprehension than on production at Time I. In half of the SLI group there was a clear development between the two data collection sessions, diminishing the dissociation. On neither testing did the children with SLI differ significantly from the unimpaired children in comprehension. At both testings, however, the children with SLI had significantly more responses where they did not insert the complementizer in relative clauses. The results indicate that the relationship between comprehension and production is different at different stages in development. They also show that structures involving dependency relations are particularly difficult to produce for children with SLI.

scholarly journals Case marking in Hungarian children with specific language impairment

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ágnes Lukács ◽  
Bence Kas ◽  
Laurence B. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Case Marking

scholarly journals Noun case suffix use by children with specific language impairment: An examination of Finnish

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 833-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURENCE B. LEONARD ◽  
SARI KUNNARI ◽  
TUULA SAVINAINEN-MAKKONEN ◽  
ANNA-KAISA TOLONEN ◽  
LEENA MÄKINEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Case Marking ◽  
Genitive Case

ABSTRACTA group of Finnish-speaking children with specific language impairment (N = 15, M age = 5 years, 2 months [5;2]), a group of same-age typically developing peers (N = 15, M age = 5;2), and a group of younger typically developing children (N = 15, M age = 3;8) were compared in their use of accusative, partitive, and genitive case noun suffixes. The children with specific language impairment were less accurate than both groups of typically developing children in case marking, suggesting that their difficulties with agreement extend to grammatical case. However, these children were also less accurate in making the phonological changes in the stem needed for suffixation. This second type of error suggests that problems in morphophonology may constitute a separate problem in Finnish specific language impairment.

Do Data From Children With Specific Language Impairment Support the Agreement/Tense Omission Model?

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 913-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian M. Pine ◽  
Kate L. Joseph ◽  
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Case Marking ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Children's Speech ◽  
Model Atom

One of the most influential recent accounts of pronoun case-marking errors in children’s speech is C. T. Schütze and K. Wexler’s (1996) agreement/tense omission model (ATOM). This model predicts that non-nominative subjects with agreeing verbs will be so rare that they can be reasonably disregarded as noise in the data. The present study tested this prediction on data from 4 children with specific language impairment (SLI) by comparing the frequency with which each child produced non-nominative subjects with agreeing verbs and the frequency with which they would be expected to produce such errors by chance given the number of nominative and non-nominative subjects and the number of agreeing and nonagreeing verb forms in the data. The results show (a) that although 3 of the 4 children used non-nominative subjects in their speech, only 2 of them (Nathan and Dan) produced non-nominative subjects with agreeing verbs significantly less often than one would expect by chance; (b) that to the extent that there was an asymmetry in Nathan’s and Dan’s use of nominative and nonnominative subjects with agreeing verbs, this asymmetry could be explained in terms of developmental changes in their ability to mark case and agreement correctly and the use of potentially unanalyzed contractions; and (c) that Nathan and Dan produced non-nominative subjects with noncontracted agreeing forms about as often as one would expect by chance. These findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical implications for the ATOM and their methodological implications for future work on patterns of pronoun case marking error in the speech of typically developing children and children with SLI.

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