Department of Communication Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
J Child Lang. 2013 Jan;40(1):139-68. doi: 10.1017/S0305000912000499.
This study examined the production of three types of noun plural inflections, feminine sound plural (FSP), masculine sound plural (MSP), and broken plural (BP) in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children with and without language impairment. A total of thirty-six Kuwaiti participants - twelve adults, twelve children with specific language impairment (SLI), and twelve typically developing age-matched controls (TD) were presented with twenty-seven pictured stimuli of real and nonsense words. The results showed that the TD children were significantly more accurate in using the required noun plural inflections than the SLI group. The TD children's preferred overgeneralization strategy was to substitute FSP for the regular MSP and irregular BP contexts much more than their peers with SLI. The performance of the SLI group also differed from that of their age-matched counterparts in the number of errors and their distribution across categories. The results are discussed in the light of relevant theories of atypical language development.
本研究考察了三种名词复数形式的产生，即科威特阿拉伯语中女性声音复数 (FSP)、男性声音复数 (MSP) 和破裂复数 (BP)，在有和没有语言障碍的科威特阿拉伯语儿童中。共有 36 名科威特参与者——12 名成年人、12 名特定语言障碍 (SLI) 儿童和 12 名年龄匹配的典型发育对照组 (TD)，他们接受了 27 个真实和无意义单词的图片刺激。结果表明，TD 儿童在使用所需的名词复数形式方面明显比 SLI 组更准确。TD 儿童更喜欢过度泛化策略，即用 FSP 代替规则的 MSP 和不规则的 BP 语境，比 SLI 儿童多得多。SLI 组的表现也与他们年龄匹配的对照组在错误数量和错误分布类别上有所不同。研究结果结合了异常语言发展的相关理论进行了讨论。
