In:
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, American Speech Language Hearing Association, Vol. 57, No. 1 ( 2014-02), p. 236-246
Kurzfassung:
The abilities of 5-year-old children with and without language impairment (LI) to detect anomalies involving lexical items and grammatical morphemes in stories were compared. The influence of sentence versus discourse context on lexical anomaly detection rates was explored. Method The participants were read 3 story scripts and asked to detect the anomalies embedded in them. Results Typically developing (TD) children outperformed their peers with LI across the board. For both groups, lexical anomalies were easier to detect than morphological anomalies. Similarly, anomalous nouns were easier for both groups to detect compared with anomalous verbs. The latter presented a particular challenge to the children with LI. Both groups had greater difficulty with lexical anomaly detection in discourse relative to sentence context. Conclusion These outcomes suggest that children's ability to detect anomalies is sensitive to the nature of the anomaly and the linguistic context involved in anomaly detection. Future research may address the relative role of linguistic and cognitive factors in anomaly detection.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1092-4388
,
1558-9102
DOI:
10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0241)
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
American Speech Language Hearing Association
Publikationsdatum:
2014
ZDB Id:
2070420-3
SSG:
5,2
SSG:
7,11
