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Abstract
The present study compared production and on-line comprehension of definite articles and third person direct object clitic pronouns in Greek-speaking typically developing, sequential bilingual (L2-TD) children and monolingual children with specific language impairment (L1-SLI). Twenty Turkish Greek L2-TD children, 16 Greek L1-SLI children, and 31 L1-TD Greek children participated in a production task examining definite articles and clitic pronouns and, in an on-line comprehension task, involving grammatical sentences with definite articles and clitics and sentences with grammatical violations induced by omitted articles and clitics. The results showed that the L2-TD children were sensitive to the grammatical violations despite low production. In contrast, the children with SLI were not sensitive to clitic omission in the on-line task, despite high production. These results support a dissociation between production and on-line comprehension in L2 children and for impaired grammatical representations and lack of automaticity in children with SLI. They also suggest that on-line comprehension tasks may complement production tasks by differentiating between the language profiles of L2-TD children and children with SLI.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1155-1191 |
Number of pages | 37 |
Journal | Applied Psycholinguistics |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 15 May 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2015 |
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Cross-linguistic study of the production and processing of grammatical morphemes in L2 children compared to children with Specific Language Impairment
Blom, E., Marinis, T., Chondrogianni, V. & Vasic, N.
3/03/08 → 30/09/10
Project: Project from a former institution
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Vicky Chondrogianni
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Bilingualism and Language Development
Person: Academic: Research Active