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Journal Article
Acquisition of Irregular Past Tense by Children With Specific Language Impairment
2000
Overview
In this paper we add to what is known about the tense-marking limitations of children with specific language impairment (SLI) by exploring the acquisition of regular and irregular past tense, encompassing the age range of 2;6 to 8;9 (years;months) and comparing the performance of 21 children with SLI to that of 23 control children of the same age and 20 younger control children of equivalent mean length of utterance (MLU) at the outset. The analysis differentiated between the morphophonological component of past tense marking and the morphosyntactic component (finiteness). In the morphosyntactic component, the performance of the SLI group trails that of the two control groups over 3.5 years, whereas in the morphophonological component, the SLI group's performance is equivalent to that of the younger controls. Models of growth curves for regular past tense and irregular finiteness marking show the same pattern, with linear and quadratic components and the child's MLU at the outset as the only predictor. For morphophonological growth the picture changes, with an interaction of linear trend and MLU and the child's receptive vocabulary emerging as a predictor. The findings support a morphosyntactic model, such as the extended optional infinitive (EOI) model, with regard to the limitations in finiteness marking and for affected children.
Publisher
ASHA,American Speech Language Hearing Association,American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Subject
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Child
/ Children
/ Delayed Language Acquisition
/ Female
/ Grammar, Comparative and general
/ Humans
/ Language and communication disorders
/ Language Disorders - diagnosis
/ Language Disorders - psychology
/ Language disorders in children
/ Male
/ Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
/ Specific Language Impairment
/ Syntax
/ Tense
/ Verbs
