Moore M E
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Illinois State University, Normal 61790-4720, USA.
J Commun Disord. 2001 May-Jun;34(3):207-28. doi: 10.1016/s0021-9924(00)00050-2.
Research findings have been mixed about pronoun case problems in the language-learning profile of children with specific language impairment (SLI). This study (N= 36) extended previous findings and located a number of error patterns using detailed error analyses. Results indicated that the children with expressive SLI produced more errors with third person singular (3Psg) pronouns than did their age-level peers, but they did not make more errors than their MLU-matched peers. Error patterns were similar in the children with SLI and their language-level peers. The most frequent type of error was the substitution of the objective case for the nominative case. More errors were made on the feminine pronoun, she, than on the masculine pronoun, he. Implications for theories and clinical practice were explored.
As a result of this activity, the reader will (1) learn how children with SLI compare to their peers in producing third person pronouns, (2) learn the most common types of pronoun errors made by the children matched for mean length of utterance (MLU), and (3) evaluate how the findings relate to two current theories: one from typical language development and one from the area of SLI.
关于特定语言障碍（SLI）儿童语言学习特征中的代词格问题，研究结果不一。本研究（N = 36）扩展了先前的研究结果，并通过详细的错误分析发现了一些错误模式。结果表明，表达性SLI儿童在第三人称单数（3Psg）代词上出现的错误比同龄儿童更多，但与语言发展成熟度匹配的同龄人相比，他们出现的错误并没有更多。SLI儿童及其语言水平相当的同龄人中的错误模式相似。最常见的错误类型是用宾格替代主格。在阴性代词“她”上出现的错误比阳性代词“他”更多。探讨了这些结果对理论和临床实践的启示。
通过本活动，读者将（1）了解SLI儿童在使用第三人称代词方面与同龄人相比情况如何，（2）了解与平均语句长度（MLU）匹配的儿童所犯最常见的代词错误类型，以及（3）评估这些结果与两种当前理论的关联：一种来自典型语言发展理论，另一种来自SLI领域的理论。
