Online Comprehension of Verbal Number Morphology in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: An Eye-Tracking Study

Purpose: Previous studies have raised the possibility of preserved language comprehension in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in online tasks and within simple sentence structures. Consequently, we evaluated the capacity of children with DLD to comprehend verbal number agreement i...

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Autores: Christou, Spyros, Coloma, Carmen Julia, Andreu, Llorenç, Guerra, Ernesto, Araya, Claudia, Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier, Sanz-Torrent, Mònica
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/147747
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/147747
http://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00591
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:developmental language disorder
language comprehension
verbal number morphology
eye movements
psycholinguistics
trastorn del desenvolupament del llenguatge
comprensió del llenguatge
morfologia del nombre verbal
moviments oculars
psicolingüística
trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje
comprensión del lenguaje
morfología del número verbal
movimientos oculares
Specific language impairment
Trastorn específic del llenguatge
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Sumario:Purpose: Previous studies have raised the possibility of preserved language comprehension in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in online tasks and within simple sentence structures. Consequently, we evaluated the capacity of children with DLD to comprehend verbal number agreement in simple sentence structures (i.e., verb–object–subject and verb–subject). Method: Using an eye-tracking methodology, we conducted two psycholinguistic experiments with 96 Spanish- and Catalan-speaking participants. The sample was distributed into four groups: 24 children with DLD (age range: 4;6–12;6 [years;months]; average age = 7;8 [years;months]), 24 children with the same chronological age (4;6–12;2, 7;8), 24 children with the same linguistic level (4;6–9;4, 6;8), and 24 university students as language experts (18–30, 22;5). Results: The experimental data indicate that children with DLD can comprehend verbal number agreement at least under the present experimental conditions. Conclusion: The empirical outcomes suggest that number morphology comprehension by children with DLD might be more typical than what it is generally considered to be.