ERIC Number: EJ1382497
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1048-9223
EISSN: EISSN-1532-7817
The Repetition of Relative Clauses in Mandarin Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Wang, Haiyan; Yu, Haopeng
Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, v30 n2 p139-162 2023
This paper attempts to investigate the repetition of Relative Clauses (RCs) in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) (aged 4; 5 to 6; 0) and their typically developing (TD) peers. The results of a sentence repetition task indicate that Mandarin children with DLD perform significantly worse than both groups of TD children, and they tend to make errors involving the relativizer DE and are more likely to produce Non-RC responses. Furthermore, the gap type of RC or the adjective's position does not affect our participants' recall of the test sentences. We conclude that the symmetric performance of our participants in the subject RC and object RC conditions is because the structural intervention occurs in object RCs, but the linear intervention counts more in subject RCs. The syntactic deficit approach better explained the difficulty experienced by children with DLD in RC repetition. Theoretically, this study demonstrates that the Edge Feature Underspecification Hypothesis captures more characteristics of children with DLD in repeating RCs than previous representational theories.
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Error Analysis (Language), Recall (Psychology), Intervention, Syntax, Difficulty Level, Developmental Delays, Task Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Kindergarten, Intelligence Tests, Vocabulary, Verbal Ability, Cognitive Development, Young Children, Diagnostic Tests, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Profiles, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
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