Article comprehension in monolingual Spanish-speaking children with developmental language disorder: A longitudinal eye tracking study.
Int J Speech Lang Pathol
; 26(1): 105-117, 2024 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-36647757
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Article-noun disagreement in spoken language is a marker of children with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, the evidence is less clear regarding article comprehension. This study investigates article comprehension in monolingual Spanish-speaking children with and without DLD.METHOD:
Eye tracking methodology used in a longitudinal experimental design enabled the examination of real time article comprehension. The children at the time 1 were 40 monolingual Spanish-speaking preschoolers (20 with DLD and 20 with typical language development [TLD]). A year later (time 2), 27 of these children (15 with DLD and 12 with TLD) were evaluated. Children listened to simple phrases while inspecting a four object visual context. The article in the phrase agreed in number and gender with only one of the objects.RESULT:
At the time 1, children with DLD did not use articles to identify the correct image, while children with TLD anticipated the correct picture. At the time 2, both groups used the articles' morphological markers, but children with DLD showed a slower and weaker preference for the correct referent compared to their age-matched peers.CONCLUSION:
These findings suggest a later emergence, but a similar developmental trajectory, of article comprehension in children with DLD compared to their peers with TLD.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Compreensão
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Transtornos do Desenvolvimento da Linguagem
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Child
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article