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What Characterizes the Productive Morphosyntax of Norwegian Children with Developmental Language Disorder?

Håkansson, Gisela LU ; Wanda Williams, Emily ; Karlsen, Jannicke and von Koss Torkildsen, Janne (2022) In Journal of Child Language p.1-24
Abstract
Little is known about the productive morphosyntax of Norwegian children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The current study examined morphosyntax in
Norwegian-speaking children with DLD (n =19) and a control group that was pairwise
matched for age, gender, and intelligence quotient (IQ; n = 19). The children’s sentence repetitions were studied through the lens of Processability Theory. The group differences were largest for grammatical structures at the latest developmental stage of the processability hierarchy. The Norwegian subordinate clause word order, belonging to the latest stage of the processability hierarchy, stood out as particularly challenging for children with DLD. Only 2 children with DLD but 16 children in... (More)
Little is known about the productive morphosyntax of Norwegian children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The current study examined morphosyntax in
Norwegian-speaking children with DLD (n =19) and a control group that was pairwise
matched for age, gender, and intelligence quotient (IQ; n = 19). The children’s sentence repetitions were studied through the lens of Processability Theory. The group differences were largest for grammatical structures at the latest developmental stage of the processability hierarchy. The Norwegian subordinate clause word order, belonging to the latest stage of the processability hierarchy, stood out as particularly challenging for children with DLD. Only 2 children with DLD but 16 children in the control group produced a subordinate clause with subordinate clause word order. Categorization of children’s errors revealed that children with DLD made more errors of all types (addition, omission, substitution, inflection and word order) but especially errors of omission and inflection. (Less)
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developmental language disorder, Processability Theory, error analysis, morphosyntax, sentence repetition
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Journal of Child Language
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24 pages
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Cambridge University Press
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1469-7602
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10.1017/S0305000922000484
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  abstract     = {{Little is known about the productive morphosyntax of Norwegian children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The current study examined morphosyntax in<br/>Norwegian-speaking children with DLD (n =19) and a control group that was pairwise<br/>matched for age, gender, and intelligence quotient (IQ; n = 19). The children’s sentence repetitions were studied through the lens of Processability Theory. The group differences were largest for grammatical structures at the latest developmental stage of the processability hierarchy. The Norwegian subordinate clause word order, belonging to the latest stage of the processability hierarchy, stood out as particularly challenging for children with DLD. Only 2 children with DLD but 16 children in the control group produced a subordinate clause with subordinate clause word order. Categorization of children’s errors revealed that children with DLD made more errors of all types (addition, omission, substitution, inflection and word order) but especially errors of omission and inflection.}},
  author       = {{Håkansson, Gisela and Wanda Williams, Emily and Karlsen, Jannicke and von Koss Torkildsen, Janne}},
  issn         = {{1469-7602}},
  keywords     = {{developmental language disorder; Processability Theory; error analysis; morphosyntax; sentence repetition}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{10}},
  pages        = {{1--24}},
  publisher    = {{Cambridge University Press}},
  series       = {{Journal of Child Language}},
  title        = {{What Characterizes the Productive Morphosyntax of Norwegian Children with Developmental Language Disorder?}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000484}},
  doi          = {{10.1017/S0305000922000484}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}