TY  - GEN
A1  - Adani, Flavia
A1  - Forgiarini, Matteo
A1  - Guasti, Maria Teresa
A1  - Van der Lely, Heather K. J.
T1  - Number dissimilarities facilitate the comprehension of relative clauses in children with (Grammatical) Specific Language Impairment
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 525 
KW  - normally developing-children
KW  - speaking children
KW  - greek children
KW  - SLI
KW  - acquisition
KW  - english
KW  - intervention
KW  - dependencies
KW  - complexity
KW  - movement
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415453
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 525
SP  - 811
EP  - 841
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Hörnig, Robin
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Knauf, Selene
A1  - Krüger, Agnes
T1  - Effects of focus and definiteness on children's word order
BT  - evidence from German five-year-olds' reproductions of double object constructions
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Two experiments tested how faithfully German children aged 4; 5 to 5; 6 reproduce ditransitive sentences that are unmarked or marked with respect to word order and focus (Exp1) or definiteness (Exp2). Adopting an optimality theory (OT) approach, it is assumed that in the German adult grammar word order is ranked lower than focus and definiteness. Faithfulness of children's reproductions decreased as markedness of inputs increased; unmarked structures were reproduced most faithfully and unfaithful outputs had most often an unmarked form. Consistent with the OT proposal, children were more tolerant against inputs marked for word order than for focus; in conflict with the proposal, children were less tolerant against inputs marked for word order than for definiteness. Our results suggest that the linearization of objects in German double object constructions is affected by focus and definiteness, but that prosodic principles may have an impact on the position of a focused constituent.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 511 
KW  - indefinite articles
KW  - preschool-children
KW  - information
KW  - animacy
KW  - acquisition
KW  - constraints
KW  - sentences
KW  - language
KW  - grammar
KW  - stress
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415695
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 511
ER  -