Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study

[eng] Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) show considerable difficulties in the linguistic production of verbal morphology marks and function words. The present study analyzes the capacity of children with SLI (n=24; age range 4:06-12), children with typical language development (n=48;...

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Autor: Christou, Spyros
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
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Palabra clave:Psicolingüística
Psycholinguistics
Comprensió
Comprensión
Comprehension
Trastorns del llenguatge en els infants
Trastornos del lenguaje en niños
Language disorders in children
Ciències de la Salut
81
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spelling Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking studyChristou, SpyrosPsicolingüísticaPsycholinguisticsComprensióComprensiónComprehensionTrastorns del llenguatge en els infantsTrastornos del lenguaje en niñosLanguage disorders in childrenCiències de la Salut81[eng] Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) show considerable difficulties in the linguistic production of verbal morphology marks and function words. The present study analyzes the capacity of children with SLI (n=24; age range 4:06-12), children with typical language development (n=48; age range 4:03-12) and adults (n=24; age range 18-30) to process the mentioned linguistic elements of the Spanish language in six online comprehension tasks. Simple sentences structures were used with the objective to reduce, as much as possible, the lexical difficulty in order to focus the analysis on the morphological dimension, with the minimum possible distraction. All the experimental tasks were based on the visual world paradigm which allows, through the technology of eye tracking, optimal conditions of psycholinguistic experimentation. Under the main hypothesis, the morphological characteristics of the linguistic stimulus guide the comprehension of the sentence and the visual analysis of the graphic scene. In this sense, it was expected that children with SLI would obtain worse results than children among control groups, considering the possibility of a deficit in the comprehension of the mentioned linguistic elements. The empirical data reveal that the children with SLI - in the present experimental conditions and in the context of the simple sentence - present a less atypical comprehension in comparison to the initial hypothesis. The results of the study allow us to suggest the possibility that the apparent difficulty in language comprehension of children with SLI follows a pattern where the accumulation of small processing difficulties in quantitative terms causes an impact in qualitative terms, which is manifested as a lower general comprehension. We suggest that the apparent difficulty in the linguistic comprehension of children with SLI might be more related to a pattern of accumulation of the difficulty, and less to isolated linguistic elements, such as verbal morphology and function words.Universitat de BarcelonaSanz-Torrent, MónicaAndreu Barrachina, LlorençUniversitat de Barcelona. Departament de Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació201820202018info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion219 p.application/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10803/586187TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)reponame:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Redinstname:CBUC, CESCAInglésL'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:www.tdx.cat:10803/5861872026-06-14T12:46:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
title Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
spellingShingle Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
Christou, Spyros
Psicolingüística
Psycholinguistics
Comprensió
Comprensión
Comprehension
Trastorns del llenguatge en els infants
Trastornos del lenguaje en niños
Language disorders in children
Ciències de la Salut
81
title_short Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
title_full Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
title_fullStr Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
title_full_unstemmed Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
title_sort Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Christou, Spyros
author Christou, Spyros
author_facet Christou, Spyros
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Sanz-Torrent, Mónica
Andreu Barrachina, Llorenç
Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Psicolingüística
Psycholinguistics
Comprensió
Comprensión
Comprehension
Trastorns del llenguatge en els infants
Trastornos del lenguaje en niños
Language disorders in children
Ciències de la Salut
81
topic Psicolingüística
Psycholinguistics
Comprensió
Comprensión
Comprehension
Trastorns del llenguatge en els infants
Trastornos del lenguaje en niños
Language disorders in children
Ciències de la Salut
81
description [eng] Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) show considerable difficulties in the linguistic production of verbal morphology marks and function words. The present study analyzes the capacity of children with SLI (n=24; age range 4:06-12), children with typical language development (n=48; age range 4:03-12) and adults (n=24; age range 18-30) to process the mentioned linguistic elements of the Spanish language in six online comprehension tasks. Simple sentences structures were used with the objective to reduce, as much as possible, the lexical difficulty in order to focus the analysis on the morphological dimension, with the minimum possible distraction. All the experimental tasks were based on the visual world paradigm which allows, through the technology of eye tracking, optimal conditions of psycholinguistic experimentation. Under the main hypothesis, the morphological characteristics of the linguistic stimulus guide the comprehension of the sentence and the visual analysis of the graphic scene. In this sense, it was expected that children with SLI would obtain worse results than children among control groups, considering the possibility of a deficit in the comprehension of the mentioned linguistic elements. The empirical data reveal that the children with SLI - in the present experimental conditions and in the context of the simple sentence - present a less atypical comprehension in comparison to the initial hypothesis. The results of the study allow us to suggest the possibility that the apparent difficulty in language comprehension of children with SLI follows a pattern where the accumulation of small processing difficulties in quantitative terms causes an impact in qualitative terms, which is manifested as a lower general comprehension. We suggest that the apparent difficulty in the linguistic comprehension of children with SLI might be more related to a pattern of accumulation of the difficulty, and less to isolated linguistic elements, such as verbal morphology and function words.
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