TY  - GEN
A1  - Adani, Flavia
A1  - Stegenwallner-Schütz, Maja Henny Katherine
A1  - Haendler, Yair
A1  - Zukowski, Andrea
T1  - Elicited production of relative clauses in German
BT  - evidence from typically developing children and children with specific language impairment
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - We elicited the production of various types of relative clauses in a group of German-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing controls in order to test the movement optionality account of grammatical difficulty in SLI. The results show that German-speaking children with SLI are impaired in relative clause production compared to typically developing children. The alternative structures that they produce consist of simple main clauses, as well as nominal and prepositional phrases produced in isolation, sometimes contextually appropriate, and sometimes not. Crucially for evaluating the movement optionality account, children with SLI produce very few instances of embedded clauses where the relative clause head noun is pronounced in situ; in fact, such responses are more common among the typically developing child controls. These results underscore the difficulty German-speaking children with SLI have with structures involving movement, but provide no specific support for the movement optionality account.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 409 
KW  - elicited production
KW  - first language acquisition
KW  - German
KW  - relative clauses
KW  - specific  language impairment
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405149
IS  - 409
ER  -