@misc{AdaniForgiariniGuastietal.2014,
  author    = {Adani, Flavia and Forgiarini, Matteo and Guasti, Maria Teresa and Van der Lely, Heather K. J.},
  title     = {Number dissimilarities facilitate the comprehension of relative clauses in children with (Grammatical) Specific Language Impairment},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {525},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41545},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415453},
  pages     = {811 -- 841},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {This study investigates whether number dissimilarities on subject and object DPs facilitate the comprehension of subject-and object-extracted centre-embedded relative clauses in children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). We compared the performance of a group of English-speaking children with G-SLI (mean age: 12; 11) with that of two groups of younger typically developing (TD) children, matched on grammar and receptive vocabulary, respectively. All groups were more accurate on subject-extracted relative clauses than object-extracted ones and, crucially, they all showed greater accuracy for sentences with dissimilar number features (i.e., one singular, one plural) on the head noun and the embedded DP. These findings are interpreted in the light of current psycholinguistic models of sentence comprehension in TD children and provide further insight into the linguistic nature of G-SLI.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{OttHoehle2013,
  author    = {Ott, Susan and H{\"o}hle, Barbara},
  title     = {Verb inflection in German-learning children with typical and atypical language acquisition},
  series = {Journal of Child Language},
  journal   = {Journal of Child Language},
  number    = {530},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.1017/S030500091200027X},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-416475},
  pages     = {24},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Previous research has shown that high phonotactic frequencies facilitate the production of regularly inflected verbs in English-learning children with specific language impairment (SLI) but not with typical development (TD). We asked whether this finding can be replicated for German, a language with a much more complex inflectional verb paradigm than English. Using an elicitation task, the production of inflected nonce verb forms (3 rd person singular with -t suffix) with either high- or low-frequency subsyllables was tested in sixteen German-learning children with SLI (ages 4;1-5 ;1), sixteen TD-children matched for chronological age (CA) and fourteen TD- children matched for verbal age (VA) (ages 3;0-3 ;11). The findings revealed that children with SLI, but not CA- or VA-children, showed differential performance between the two types of verbs, producing more inflectional errors when the verb forms resulted in low-frequency subsyllables than when they resulted in high-frequency subsyllables, replicating the results from English-learning children.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{OttHoehle2011,
  author    = {Ott, Susan and H{\"o}hle, Barbara},
  title     = {Verb inflection in German-learning children with typical and atypical language acquisition},
  series = {Journal of child language},
  volume    = {40},
  journal   = {Journal of child language},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0305-0009},
  doi       = {10.1017/S030500091200027X},
  pages     = {169 -- 192},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Previous research has shown that high phonotactic frequencies facilitate the production of regularly inflected verbs in English-learning children with specific language impairment (SLI) but not with typical development (TD). We asked whether this finding can be replicated for German, a language with a much more complex inflectional verb paradigm than English. Using an elicitation task, the production of inflected nonce verb forms (3rd person singular with - t suffix) with either high-or low-frequency subsyllables was tested in sixteen German-learning children with SLI (ages 4;1-5;1), sixteen TD-children matched for chronological age (CA) and fourteen TD-children matched for verbal age (VA) (ages 3;0-3;11). The findings revealed that children with SLI, but not CA-or VA-children, showed differential performance between the two types of verbs, producing more inflectional errors when the verb forms resulted in low-frequency subsyllables than when they resulted in high-frequency subsyllables, replicating the results from English-learning children.},
  language  = {en}
}