Lukács Agnes, Pléh Csaba, Racsmány Mihály
Research Group on Neuropsychology and Psycholinguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences-BUTE and Research Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
J Child Lang. 2007 May;34(2):311-43. doi: 10.1017/s0305000906007926.
We present data on the language of space in Hungarian individuals with Williams syndrome (WS; 19 in the first, 15 in the second study, between 8; and 21; 11) and a verbal control (VC) group of typically developing (TD; 19 in the first, 15 in the second study, between 3;5 and 10;7) children from: (1) a study of elicited production and comprehension of spatial terms; and (2) a sentence completion task on case markers in their spatial and non-spatial use. The first study showed poorer performance in the WS group, but similar performance patterns and a special difficulty of SOURCE terms in both groups. We did not find overall group differences in the second study. We argue that WS performance patterns reflect WS spatial abilities and seem to be constrained by the same factors in WS as in TD. Results also lead us to conclude that, contrary to most previous claims, there is no selective deficit of spatial terms within WS language, and they also suggest that not all uses of spatial terms require activation of mental models of space.
我们展示了关于患有威廉姆斯综合征（WS）的匈牙利个体（第一项研究中有19名，第二项研究中有15名，年龄在8岁至21岁11个月之间）以及一个由发育正常（TD）儿童组成的语言对照组（VC；第一项研究中有19名，第二项研究中有15名，年龄在3岁5个月至10岁7个月之间）在空间语言方面的数据，这些数据来自：（1）一项关于空间术语引出性产出和理解的研究；以及（2）一项关于格标记在空间和非空间使用中的句子完成任务。第一项研究表明WS组表现较差，但两组的表现模式相似，且两组在SOURCE术语方面都存在特殊困难。在第二项研究中，我们未发现总体组间差异。我们认为WS的表现模式反映了WS的空间能力，并且在WS中似乎受到与TD中相同因素的限制。结果还使我们得出结论，与之前大多数观点相反，WS语言中不存在空间术语的选择性缺陷，并且它们还表明并非所有空间术语的使用都需要激活空间心理模型。
