Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Information in Preschool Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: A Follow-Up Study

Conclusions Despite the groups' similar sentence comprehension abilities and ability to accurately respond to the information provided by the subject noun, children with DLD did not show sensitivity to number information on the fronted auxiliary. This insensitivity is considered in light of these children's weaker command of tense/agreement forms in their speech. Specifically, we consider the possibility that failure to grasp the relation between the subject –verb sequence (e.g.,dogs running) and preceding information (e.g.,are) in questions in the input contributes to the protracted inconsistency in producing auxiliary forms in obligatory contexts by children with DLD.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7283459
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research