TY  - GEN
A1  - Ott, Susan
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
T1  - Verb inflection in German-learning children with typical and atypical language acquisition
BT  - the impact of subsyllabic frequencies
T2  - Journal of Child Language
N2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 530 
KW  - english past tense
KW  - phonotactic probability
KW  - sentence repetition
KW  - nonword repetition
KW  - speaking children
KW  - impairment
KW  - morphology
KW  - infants
KW  - speech
KW  - words
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-416475
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 530
ER  -