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  - 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  - 
TY  - JOUR
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
JF  - 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 (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.
KW  - english past tense
KW  - sentence repetition
KW  - nonword repetition
KW  - speaking children
KW  - impairment
KW  - morphology
KW  - infants
KW  - speech
KW  - words
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500091200027X
SN  - 0305-0009
VL  - 40
IS  - 1
SP  - 169
EP  - 192
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - New York
ER  -