Title: Verb growth and grammatical development in Cantonese speaking children with specific language impairment
Abstract: This study is focused on the verb growth pattern of Cantonese Specific language impairment (CSLI) children and its relationship with grammatical development as measured by mean utterance length (MLU) and flexibility in using verb. 8 pairs of MLU matched CSLI children and normal children are analyzed over a 7 month time period This study shows that* (1) CSLI children do not have a significant positive relationship between transitive verb (vt) growth and MLU growth whereas their normally developing controls do (2) CSLI children have slower vt and MLU growth than normal children (3) CSLI children and normal children have differences in growth pattern of vt and MLU (4) CSLI children and normal children overall do not have significant differences in flexibility in using transitive verbs when they first appear or over a 7-month time but there are some individual differences. These findings have implications for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of verbs and grammar of CSLI children. INTRODUCTION WhyrtiidySXJ? Specific language impairment (SLI) children are those children who have a significant limitation in language ability but with normal cognitive and hearing abilities, and without any neurological dysfunction and organic anomalies (Leonard, 1998) There are several reasons to study specific language impairment (SLI) children. According to Leonard (1998), studying SLI children : (1) assisted SLI children and their families in a more effective ways (2) provided a baseline of language impairment to other populations which had language impairment (e.g. for some deaf children, a significant language learning deficit was not explained by the environment of signing language but SLI) (3) contributed to theories of language organization and development (eg. which aspects of
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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