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  - JOUR
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
JF  - Journal of child language
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.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000184
SN  - 0305-0009
SN  - 1469-7602
VL  - 41
IS  - 4
SP  - 811
EP  - 841
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -