Chapter 6. Assessing children’s syntactic proficiency through a sentence repetition task
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Silvia D’Ortenzio
und Francesca Volpato
Abstract
Cochlear implants (CIs) can provide proper linguistic input to children with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. However, despite an early diagnosis and intervention, and the development of lexical skills and speech perception similar to typically developing age peers, children with CIs still show a delay in the processing of movement-derived structures. Following previous studies on deaf or hard-of-hearing Hebrew-speaking children, this study provides first data on the repetition of movement-derived syntactically complex structures in Italian-speaking children with CIs. Results showed that children with CIs performed poorer than their typically developing age peers and showed many difficulties in all the structures characterised by a complex derivation. Interestingly, both groups showed difficulties in the production of relative clauses.
Abstract
Cochlear implants (CIs) can provide proper linguistic input to children with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. However, despite an early diagnosis and intervention, and the development of lexical skills and speech perception similar to typically developing age peers, children with CIs still show a delay in the processing of movement-derived structures. Following previous studies on deaf or hard-of-hearing Hebrew-speaking children, this study provides first data on the repetition of movement-derived syntactically complex structures in Italian-speaking children with CIs. Results showed that children with CIs performed poorer than their typically developing age peers and showed many difficulties in all the structures characterised by a complex derivation. Interestingly, both groups showed difficulties in the production of relative clauses.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part 1. Syntactic complexity and intervention effects in the L1 acquisition of Romance
- Chapter 1. Acquisition of clitic climbing by European Portuguese children 13
- Chapter 2. Strategies in the production of PP relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese 39
- Chapter 3. Cost-reducing strategies in the production of Brazilian Portuguese relative clauses 67
- Chapter 4. Some thoughts on (the acquisition of) control 83
- Chapter 5. The production of variable number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese 109
- Chapter 6. Assessing children’s syntactic proficiency through a sentence repetition task 133
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Part 2. Crosslinguistic influence in 2L1 acquisition and L2 learning
- Chapter 7. L1 effects in the L2 acquisition of long-distance binding in European Portuguese 173
- Chapter 8. On the nature of crosslinguistic influence 203
- Chapter 9. Can explicit instruction help L2 learners overcome persistent L1 interference? 229
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Part 3. Language acquisition at the interface in various learning settings
- Chapter 10. Combining Focus VS and Topic constructions 259
- Chapter 11. Gender marking in L1 and L2 French 289
- Chapter 12. The acquisition of disjunction under negation and recursive ni in French 315
- Chapter 13. Deriving scalar implicatures with quantifiers by Romanian children 331
- Chapter 14. The acquisition of mood in child Spanish 355
- Index 379
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part 1. Syntactic complexity and intervention effects in the L1 acquisition of Romance
- Chapter 1. Acquisition of clitic climbing by European Portuguese children 13
- Chapter 2. Strategies in the production of PP relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese 39
- Chapter 3. Cost-reducing strategies in the production of Brazilian Portuguese relative clauses 67
- Chapter 4. Some thoughts on (the acquisition of) control 83
- Chapter 5. The production of variable number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese 109
- Chapter 6. Assessing children’s syntactic proficiency through a sentence repetition task 133
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Part 2. Crosslinguistic influence in 2L1 acquisition and L2 learning
- Chapter 7. L1 effects in the L2 acquisition of long-distance binding in European Portuguese 173
- Chapter 8. On the nature of crosslinguistic influence 203
- Chapter 9. Can explicit instruction help L2 learners overcome persistent L1 interference? 229
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Part 3. Language acquisition at the interface in various learning settings
- Chapter 10. Combining Focus VS and Topic constructions 259
- Chapter 11. Gender marking in L1 and L2 French 289
- Chapter 12. The acquisition of disjunction under negation and recursive ni in French 315
- Chapter 13. Deriving scalar implicatures with quantifiers by Romanian children 331
- Chapter 14. The acquisition of mood in child Spanish 355
- Index 379