Natsopoulos D, Xeromeritou A
Psychological Laboratory, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Res Dev Disabil. 1990;11(2):199-216. doi: 10.1016/0891-4222(90)90035-7.
Comprehension of complement clauses embedded into four matrix verbs in Greek, equivalent to English in syntactic and semantic constraints, was investigated with mildly handicapped (MH) and nonretarded children (NR). The results suggest that: (a) the MH children use the same syntactic information in comprehension of complement clauses as the NR children, (b) verbal MA cannot best predict linguistic performance by MH and NR children. (c) Digit Span does not correlate with comprehension nor does verbal IQ in MH., (d) Digit Span and verbal IQ are significantly correlated with NR children's comprehension, (e) the psychological status of the minimal distance principle (MDP) is debatable, while the semantic role principle (SRP) is partially supported by the data, (f) MH children lack metalinguistic ability compared to young NR children.
本研究以轻度残疾（MH）儿童和发育正常（NR）儿童为对象，考察了他们对嵌入希腊语中四个主句动词的补语从句的理解情况，这些主句动词在句法和语义限制方面与英语相当。结果表明：（a）MH儿童在理解补语从句时使用的句法信息与NR儿童相同；（b）言语心理年龄不能很好地预测MH和NR儿童的语言表现；（c）数字广度与MH儿童的理解能力无关，言语智商也与之无关；（d）数字广度和言语智商与NR儿童的理解能力显著相关；（e）最小距离原则（MDP）的心理地位存在争议，而语义角色原则（SRP）得到了部分数据支持；（f）与年幼的NR儿童相比，MH儿童缺乏元语言能力。
