Syntactic Complexity Effects of Russian Relative Clause Sentences in Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder

被引:12
作者
Rakhlin, Natalia [1 ,2 ]
Kornilov, Sergey A. [2 ]
Kornilova, Tatiana V. [3 ]
Grigorenko, Elena L. [2 ]
机构
[1] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
[2] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[3] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
关键词
WORKING-MEMORY; GRAMMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; SPEAKING CHILDREN; OBJECT RELATIVES; COMPREHENSION; SLI; ACQUISITION; CONSTRAINTS; DISSIMILARITIES;
D O I
10.1080/10489223.2016.1179312
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
We investigated relative clause (RC) comprehension in 44 Russian-speaking children with typical language (TD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) (M age = 10;67, SD = 2.84) and 22 adults. Flexible word order and morphological case in Russian allowed us to isolate factors that are obscured in English, helping us to identify sources of syntactic complexity and evaluate their roles in RC comprehension by children with typical language and their peers with DLD. We administered a working memory and an RC comprehension (picture-choice) task, which contained subject- and object-gap center-embedded and right-branching RCs. The TD group, but not adults, demonstrated the effects of gap, embedding, and case. Their lower accuracy relative to adults was not fully attributable to differences in working memory. The DLD group displayed lower than TD children overall accuracy, accounted for by their lower working memory scores. While the effect of gap and embedding on their performance was not different from what was found for the TD group, children with DLD exhibited a diminished effect of case, suggesting reduced sensitivity to morphological case markers as processing cues. The implications of these results to theories of syntactic complexity and core deficits in DLD are discussed.
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