Past-tense inflection of non-verbs : a potential clinical marker of developmental language disorder in Swedish children
Kalnak, Nelli LU ; Löwgren, Karolina LU and Hansson, Kristina LU
(2022)
In Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
47(1).
p.10-17
- Abstract
Aim: In this paper, we explore the performance of past-tense inflection of non-verbs (NVI) in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and in typically developing controls, to investigate its accuracy as a clinical marker for Swedish-speaking children with DLD. Further, we investigate the relationship between NVI, nonword-repetition, and family history. Methods: The sample consists of 36 children with DLD (mean age 9;5 years) and 60 controls (mean age 9;2 years). Results: The DLD group performed significantly lower than the controls on the NVI task, with a large effect size of the difference (d = 1.52). Analysis of the clinical accuracy of NVI resulted in 80.6% sensitivity and 76.6% specificity. NVI was significantly and... (More)
Aim: In this paper, we explore the performance of past-tense inflection of non-verbs (NVI) in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and in typically developing controls, to investigate its accuracy as a clinical marker for Swedish-speaking children with DLD. Further, we investigate the relationship between NVI, nonword-repetition, and family history. Methods: The sample consists of 36 children with DLD (mean age 9;5 years) and 60 controls (mean age 9;2 years). Results: The DLD group performed significantly lower than the controls on the NVI task, with a large effect size of the difference (d = 1.52). Analysis of the clinical accuracy of NVI resulted in 80.6% sensitivity and 76.6% specificity. NVI was significantly and moderately associated with nonword-repetition in the controls, but not in the DLD group. A positive family history, 80.6% in the DLD group and 6.9% in the controls, was associated with lower performance on NVI. When controlling for group (DLD and controls), a non-significant association between family history and performance on the NVI task was found. Conclusions: NVI is a potential clinical marker of DLD in Swedish school-aged children, but the current NVI task does not reach the level of being acceptable. Further development of the NVI task is warranted to improve its accuracy.
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- author
- Kalnak, Nelli
LU
; Löwgren, Karolina
LU
and Hansson, Kristina
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- clinical marker, Developmental language disorder, family history, nonword repetition, past tense inflection
- in
- Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
- volume
- 47
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 10 - 17
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85090454314
- pmid:32894034
- ISSN
- 1401-5439
- DOI
- 10.1080/14015439.2020.1810311
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 54df9849-a790-4bbe-acfe-579fa2752797
- date added to LUP
- 2020-10-26 09:15:00
- date last changed
- 2024-06-27 00:30:57
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