Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam, Germany.
J Child Lang. 2013 Jan;40(1):169-92. doi: 10.1017/S030500091200027X.
Previous research has shown that high phonotactic frequencies facilitate the production of regularly inflected verbs in English-learning children with specific language impairment (SLI) but not with typical development (TD). We asked whether this finding can be replicated for German, a language with a much more complex inflectional verb paradigm than English. Using an elicitation task, the production of inflected nonce verb forms (3(rd) person singular with -t suffix) with either high- or low-frequency subsyllables was tested in sixteen German-learning children with SLI (ages 4;1-5;1), sixteen TD-children matched for chronological age (CA) and fourteen TD-children matched for verbal age (VA) (ages 3;0-3;11). The findings revealed that children with SLI, but not CA- or VA-children, showed differential performance between the two types of verbs, producing more inflectional errors when the verb forms resulted in low-frequency subsyllables than when they resulted in high-frequency subsyllables, replicating the results from English-learning children.
先前的研究表明，在患有特定语言障碍（SLI）的英语学习儿童中，高音韵频率有助于生成规则屈折动词，但在具有典型发展（TD）的儿童中则不然。我们想知道这一发现是否可以在德语中得到复制，德语的动词屈折范式比英语复杂得多。使用诱发任务，我们测试了 16 名患有 SLI（年龄 4；1-5；1）的德语学习儿童、16 名年龄匹配的 TD 儿童（CA）和 14 名语言年龄匹配的 TD 儿童（VA）（年龄 3；0-3；11）对高、低频音节的非名词动词形式（第三人称单数后缀-t）的屈折形式的生成能力。研究结果表明，只有 SLI 儿童，而不是 CA 或 VA 儿童，在这两种动词类型之间表现出不同的表现，当动词形式产生低频音节时，他们比产生高频音节时会产生更多的屈折错误，这复制了英语学习儿童的结果。
