TY  - GEN
A1  - Rothweiler, Monika
A1  - Chilla, Solveig
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Subject−verb agreement in Specific Language Impairment
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - This study investigates phenomena that have been claimed to be indicative of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in German, focusing on subject-verb agreement marking. Longitudinal data from fourteen German-speaking children with SLI, seven monolingual and seven Turkish-German successive bilingual children, were examined. We found similar patterns of impairment in the two participant groups. Both the monolingual and the bilingual children with SLI had correct (present vs. preterit) tense marking and produced syntactically complex sentences such as embedded clauses and wh-questions, but were limited in reliably producing correct agreement-marked verb forms. These contrasts indicate that agreement marking is impaired in German-speaking children with SLI, without any necessary concurrent deficits in either the CP-domain or in tense marking. Our results also show that it is possible to identify SLI from an early successive bilingual child's performance in one of her two languages.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 510 
KW  - verb morphology
KW  - tense deficit
KW  - agreement deficit
KW  - Turkish−German SLI
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41512
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415122
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 510
ER  -