Haresabadi Fatemeh, Shirazi Tahereh Sima, Ebadi Abbas, Dastjerdi Kazemi Mehdi, Ghayoumi Anaraki Zahra, Maleki Shahmahmood Toktam
Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Speech Therapy, School of Paramedical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Iran J Med Sci. 2018 Jul;43(4):386-392.
Syntax has a high importance among linguistic parameters and the prevalence of syntax deficits is relatively high in children with language disorders. As such, independent examination of syntax in language development is of paramount importance. In this regard, Iranian language pathologists are faced with the lack of standardized tests. The present study aimed to determine the most frequent and essential morphosyntactic structures of the Persian-speaking children aged 4-6 years, as an initial step in the design of a test to assess their expressive morphosyntactic features.
The present descriptive qualitative study was designed and conducted in two phases in Tehran (Iran) during 2014-2015. The first phase involved an extensive review of the Persian grammar sources, language development texts, modeling a test called SPELT-3, and morphosyntactic analysis of samples of spontaneous speech from 30 Persian-speaking children aged 4-6 years. In this phase, 30 structures were extracted as the most frequent morphosyntactic features used by children aged 4-6 years. The second phase of the research involved directed content analysis via in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 10 specialists in the fields of linguistics, language, and speech pathology.
In total, 30 morphosyntactic structures were extracted in the first phase of the study as the most frequent morphosyntactic structures of the Persian-speaking children aged 4-6 years. The overall validity of these structures was estimated at 70%.
Based on the results, the selected morphosyntactic structures could be the foundation for morphosyntactic assessments in Persian-speaking children aged 4-6 years.
句法在语言参数中具有高度重要性，且句法缺陷在语言障碍儿童中的发生率相对较高。因此，在语言发展中独立考察句法至关重要。在这方面，伊朗语言病理学家面临缺乏标准化测试的问题。本研究旨在确定4至6岁说波斯语儿童最常见和基本的形态句法结构，作为设计一项评估其表达性形态句法特征测试的第一步。
本描述性定性研究于2014年至2015年在德黑兰（伊朗）分两个阶段设计并开展。第一阶段包括广泛查阅波斯语语法资料、语言发展文本，模仿一个名为SPELT - 3的测试，并对30名4至6岁说波斯语儿童的自发言语样本进行形态句法分析。在这一阶段，提取了30种结构作为4至6岁儿童最常用的形态句法特征。研究的第二阶段通过对语言学、语言和言语病理学领域的10名专家进行深入和半结构化访谈进行定向内容分析。
在研究的第一阶段共提取了30种形态句法结构，作为4至6岁说波斯语儿童最常见的形态句法结构。这些结构的总体效度估计为70%。
基于研究结果，所选的形态句法结构可作为4至6岁说波斯语儿童形态句法评估的基础。
