The production of relative clauses in Italian-speaking children with DLD

F. Arosio, Silvia Silleresi, M. Guasti
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Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have been shown to struggle with the acquisition of complex structures requiring structural embedding and movement of a sentential element from its original position. This study examines the production of subject and object relative clauses (RCs) by Italian children, investigating whether: i) seven-year-old children with DLD are impaired in embedding or movement operations; ii) specific factors, such as animacy of the arguments, affect the production of sentences with movement and embedding, iii) the linguistic profile of children with DLD is qualitatively different from that of typically developing (TD) children. We elicited the production of RCs with animate and inanimate arguments in 12 Italian-speaking children with DLD (mean age = 7;2) and in two TD control groups: age matched (AM) and language matched (LM). Children with DLD produced fewer RCs than either control group and made different errors, showing a slightly different developmental path. Animacy mismatch did not improve RC production in any group. Results suggest that seven-year-old children with DLD are in a transitional stage: they can use embedding but still have difficulties with movement operations, especially in object RCs. This indicates that the language competence of children with DLD improves with age, but long-distance dependencies continue to be challenging.
说意大利语的 DLD 儿童相对从句的产生
事实证明,患有发育性语言障碍(DLD)的儿童在学习需要结构嵌入和将句子成分从其原始位置移动的复杂结构时会遇到困难。本研究考察了意大利儿童主语和宾语相对从句(RCs)的生成情况,探讨了以下问题:i) 七岁发育障碍儿童是否在嵌入或移动操作方面存在障碍;ii) 特定因素(如论据的生动性)是否会影响具有移动和嵌入功能的句子的生成;iii) 发育障碍儿童的语言特征与典型发育(TD)儿童是否存在质的差异。我们对 12 名讲意大利语的 DLD 儿童(平均年龄 = 7;2)和两组 TD 对照组(年龄匹配组 (AM) 和语言匹配组 (LM))进行了有生命和无生命论据的 RC 生成测试。与对照组相比,患有 DLD 的儿童产生的 RC 更少,而且所犯的错误也不同,这表明他们的发展路径略有不同。动画不匹配并没有改善任何一组儿童的 RC 生成。结果表明,七岁的 DLD 儿童正处于过渡阶段:他们可以使用嵌入法,但在运动操作方面仍有困难,尤其是在物体 RC 方面。这表明,随着年龄的增长,DLD 儿童的语言能力会有所提高,但远距离依赖仍是一项挑战。
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