Relative clause constructions in children with specific language impairment.

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dc.contributor.authorFrizelle, Pauline
dc.contributor.authorFletcher, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-28T15:41:30Z
dc.date.available2014-12-04T05:00:06Z
dc.date.issued2014-03
dc.date.updated2014-05-14T08:44:43Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: It is well documented that children with specific language impairment (SLI) experience significant grammatical deficits. While much of the focus in the past has been on morphosyntactic difficulties, less is known about their acquisition of multi-clausal constructions such as those containing relative clauses. Aims: To investigate relative clause constructions in English-speaking, school-aged children with SLI using a sentence-recall task. Methods & Procedures: Children with SLI (mean age = 6;10; n = 32) and two control groups, a typically developing group matched for age (AM-TD; mean age = 6;11; n = 32) and a younger typically developing group (YTD; mean age = 4;9; n = 20), repeated sentences that contained relative clauses which represented a range of syntactic roles. The relative clauses were attached either to the predicate nominal of a copular clause or to the direct object of a transitive clause. Outcomes & Results: Children with SLI showed significantly greater difficulty than both the AM-TD and the YTD groups overall, but found some relative clause types easier than others, displaying a similar profile to typically developing children but at a lower level of performance. Conclusions & Implications: Children with SLI who are close to 7 years of age have significantly greater difficulty with relative clauses than their age peers and typically developing children who are on average 2 years younger. Their performance is influenced by the matrix clause type, the role of the relativized element within the relative clause, and in object relative clauses, lexical choices within the matrix clause and the relative clause.en
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch Fellowships for the Therapy Professions (CTPF/2008/4)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationFRIZELLE, P. & FLETCHER, P. 2014. Relative clause constructions in children with specific language impairment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 49(2), 255-264. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12070en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1460-6984.12070
dc.identifier.endpage264en
dc.identifier.issn1460-6984
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of Language & Communication Disordersen
dc.identifier.startpage255en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1563
dc.identifier.volume49en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.rightsThis is the accepted version of the following article: FRIZELLE, P. & FLETCHER, P. 2014. Relative clause constructions in children with specific language impairment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 49, 255-264., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12070.en
dc.subjectSpecific language impairmenten
dc.subjectRelative clausesen
dc.subjectSyntaxen
dc.subjectAssessmenten
dc.titleRelative clause constructions in children with specific language impairment.en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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