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Penke, Martina ORCID: 0000-0003-4686-7673 and Rothweiler, Monika (2018). Comparing Specific Language Impairment and Hearing Impairment: Different Profiles in German Verbal Agreement Morphology. Lang. Acquisition, 25 (1). S. 39 - 58. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1532-7817

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Abstract

The study aims at identifying characteristic phenotypes for children with SLI and children with sensorineural hearing impairment (HI) in language and in domains associated with language. We focus on verbal agreement inflection and phonological short-term memory, phenomena that have been repeatedly found to be impaired in both groups of children. A nonword repetition task and an elicitation task on subject-verb agreement were conducted with three groups of monolingual German children: (i) 11 children with SLI, (ii) 10 children with HI (hearing loss between 38 and 75 dB) and hearing aids, and (iii) 10 typically developing children. Data analyses reveal quantitatively and qualitatively different performance patterns with respect to verbal agreement inflection in children with SLI and children with HI but no different patterns for nonword repetition. Our results not only identify deficits in verbal agreement inflection as a sensitive, specific, and selective clinical marker for SLI in German, but they also shed some light on the nature of the deficits that underlie SLI.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Penke, Martina UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-7673 UNSPECIFIED Rothweiler, Monika UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-204295
DOI:	10.1080/10489223.2016.1204545
Journal or Publication Title:	Lang. Acquisition
Volume:	25
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 39 - 58
Date:	2018
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1532-7817
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Heilpädagogik und Rehabilitation
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SPANISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN; WORKING-MEMORY; SENTENCE COMPREHENSION; NONWORD REPETITION; SLI CHILDREN; ENGLISH; WORD; DEFICITS; HYPOTHESIS; FEATURES Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/20429