Wassenberg Renske, Hurks Petra P M, Hendriksen Jos G M, Feron Frans J M, Meijs Celeste J C, Vles Johan S H, Jolles Jelle
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2008 May;30(4):435-48. doi: 10.1080/13803390701523091.
We investigated age-related improvement in speed and accuracy of complex language comprehension with 361 children attending kindergarten and the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Language comprehension was measured using both the neuropsychological procedure proposed by Luria (1966, 1980) and an adapted version of the Token Test. Levels of short-term memory and verbal intelligence were controlled for in the evaluation of language comprehension. The findings show that the accuracy of language comprehension continued to develop until the 6th grade, whereas the speed of language comprehension continued to improve up until the 7th grade. We thus conclude that the complex language comprehension of children is not fully developed until early adolescence. We further contend that the speed of complex language comprehension appears to be more sensitive than accuracy with respect to measuring developmental differences.
我们对361名幼儿园儿童以及二、四、六、七、八年级的学生进行了研究，以探究复杂语言理解的速度和准确性在与年龄相关方面的提高情况。语言理解能力通过使用鲁利亚（1966年，1980年）提出的神经心理学程序以及一个经过改编的标记测验版本来进行测量。在评估语言理解能力时，对短期记忆水平和言语智力进行了控制。研究结果表明，语言理解的准确性在六年级之前持续发展，而语言理解的速度在七年级之前持续提高。因此，我们得出结论，儿童的复杂语言理解能力直到青春期早期才完全发展。我们进一步认为，在测量发育差异方面，复杂语言理解的速度似乎比准确性更为敏感。
