Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Successful language acquisition depends on several factors. Child-internal capacities play a role (e.g. the ability to hear and process language) and also external variables (for example quantity and quality of language input). Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show language learning difficulties. They have problems with processing and learning linguistic patterns. Bilingual children are often exposed less to their languages than their monolingual typically developing (TD) peers, due to shared resources, which may interfere with their language development. In the present study we compared past tense productions of children with SLI with those of bilingual children. We investigated whether 1) overall accuracy of Dutch past tense productions differed between these groups and 2) whether the groups of SLI and bilingual children were equally sensitive to frequency information involved in past tense production.
Authors: Rispens, J., de Bree, E., Orman, W., Valleau, M.J.
Institution: University of Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2595025523