18.3148, Books: Psycholing/Lang Acquisition/Syntax/Morphology: Southwood

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Date: 23-Oct-2007
From: Rianne Giethoorn < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: Specific language impairment in Afrikaans: Southwood

 

	
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Title: Specific language impairment in Afrikaans 
Subtitle: Providing a Minimalist account for problems with grammatical features and
word order
 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Frenette Southwood

Paperback: ISBN:  9789078328377 Pages: 363 Price: Europe EURO 29.07


Abstract:

This dissertation aimed to identify the linguistic characteristics of specific
language impairment (SLI) as it presents itself in Afrikaans. The study
ascertained whether (i) the comprehension and production of grammatical
morphemes by Afrikaans-speaking children with SLI are delayed and/or
deviant; (ii) the predictions made by current linguistic accounts of SLI are
borne out by the Afrikaans data; and (iii) there is a need for an alternative,
comprehensive account of SLI as it presents itself in Afrikaans.

A series of experimental tasks was performed with three groups of
Afrikaansspeaking children (6-year-olds with SLI, and typically developing
4- and 6-year-olds), and spontaneous language samples were collected. The
children with SLI presented like younger typically developing ones on the
experimental tasks, but, in terms of the spontaneous production of
grammatical morphemes, they fared worse than both typically developing
groups. Furthermore, certain word order errors were made only by the
children with SLI. It appears then that the language of Afrikaans-speaking
children with SLI is not merely delayed, but also somewhat deviant. 

The predictions made by current linguistic accounts of SLI were not borne
out by the Afrikaans data. The alternative account proposed here is that
the problems Afrikaans-speaking children experience with grammatical
morphemes and word order are related to problems at Spell-Out at PF. The
problem appears not to lie in the computational system as such, but with
syntax-phonology mapping. These children have difficulties choosing the
correct form for Spell-Out, which may be related to the fact that these
Spell-Out forms are not (yet) stored in as organised a manner as they are
in the adult lexicon. 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Morphology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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