The acquisition of past tense by Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment
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Spyridoula Varlokosta
Abstract
The performance of 13 Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) on past tense formation is compared to the performance of two control groups of typically developing (TD) children. It is shown that children with SLI have difficulties in the production of past tense forms compared to language or age-matched TD controls. It is argued that phonological salience or regularity does not affect the acquisition of past tense in children with SLI and TD controls. In contrast, regularity of aspectual formation and frequency of the verb form has an effect on the acquisition of the perfective past in children with SLI. Τhese results are discussed in relation to one morphosyntactic and one morphophonological account of past tense acquisition in SLI.
Abstract
The performance of 13 Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) on past tense formation is compared to the performance of two control groups of typically developing (TD) children. It is shown that children with SLI have difficulties in the production of past tense forms compared to language or age-matched TD controls. It is argued that phonological salience or regularity does not affect the acquisition of past tense in children with SLI and TD controls. In contrast, regularity of aspectual formation and frequency of the verb form has an effect on the acquisition of the perfective past in children with SLI. Τhese results are discussed in relation to one morphosyntactic and one morphophonological account of past tense acquisition in SLI.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- The Genetics of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) 7
- Language disorders in children with Developmental Dyslexia 35
- Is there an overlap between Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia? New insights from French 57
- Comparing SLI and dyslexia: developmental language profiles and reading outcomes 89
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is not specific enough: Sub-types of SLI and their implications for the theory of the disorder 113
- Memory profiles of children with SLI 125
- The relationship between SLI in English and Modern Greek 145
- Null Subjects in Monolingual and Bilingual, Typical and Atypical Development 175
- Quantification in Catalan SLI 191
- Specific Language Impairment in German Children 215
- The acquisition of past tense by Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment 253
- Theory Motivated Therapy Studies of SLI 287
- Index 319
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction 1
- The Genetics of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) 7
- Language disorders in children with Developmental Dyslexia 35
- Is there an overlap between Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia? New insights from French 57
- Comparing SLI and dyslexia: developmental language profiles and reading outcomes 89
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is not specific enough: Sub-types of SLI and their implications for the theory of the disorder 113
- Memory profiles of children with SLI 125
- The relationship between SLI in English and Modern Greek 145
- Null Subjects in Monolingual and Bilingual, Typical and Atypical Development 175
- Quantification in Catalan SLI 191
- Specific Language Impairment in German Children 215
- The acquisition of past tense by Greek-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment 253
- Theory Motivated Therapy Studies of SLI 287
- Index 319
