Mortimer Jennifer, Rvachew Susan
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008 Dec;1145:275-82. doi: 10.1196/annals.1416.011.
The goals of the current study were to examine concurrent and longitudinal relationships of expressive morphosyntax and phonological awareness in a group of children with speech sound disorders. Tests of phonological awareness were administered to 38 children at the end of their prekindergarten and kindergarten years. Speech samples were elicited and analyzed to obtain a set of expressive morphosyntax variables. Finite verb morphology and inflectional suffix use by prekindergarten children were found to predict significant unique variance in change in phonological awareness a year later. These results are consistent with previous research showing finite verb morphology to be a sensitive indicator of language impairment in English.
本研究的目的是考察一组语音障碍儿童中表达性形态句法与语音意识之间的共时关系和纵向关系。在38名儿童学前班和幼儿园学年结束时进行了语音意识测试。采集并分析言语样本，以获得一组表达性形态句法变量。研究发现，学前班儿童的限定动词形态和屈折后缀使用情况能够预测一年后语音意识变化中显著的独特方差。这些结果与之前的研究一致，表明限定动词形态是英语语言障碍的一个敏感指标。
