Mastropavlou Maria, Petinou Kakia, Tsimpli Ianthi Maria, Georgiou Anastasios M
a University of Ioannina , Ioannina , Greece.
b Cyprus University of Technology , Limassol , Cyprus.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2019;33(1-2):95-116. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2018.1505956. Epub 2018 Aug 13.
The current study investigates the role of the morphophonological realisation of grammatical features as a compensatory mechanism for morphosyntactic deficits in specific language impairment (SLI). The phenomenon examined is past tense formation in Standard Modern Greek (SMG) and Cypriot Greek (CG) as it manifests a distinction in morphophonological salience realisation in the two linguistic varieties via differential use of a stress shift and stressed syllabic augment [é] required for past tense rule formation. Participants were pre-schoolers with typical language development (TD) and children with SLI. Subjects produced real verb (RV) and pseudo-verb stimuli (PV) in sentence completion tasks. Results indicated that morphophonological properties of past tense formation affected SLI but not TD performance. We attribute the results to the difference in the status of the augment in each variety and the effects it has on its realisation at the phonetic interface. Furthermore, verb contractibility appeared to pose particular difficulties in the performance of all groups.
本研究探讨语法特征的形态音位实现作为特定语言障碍（SLI）中形态句法缺陷补偿机制的作用。所研究的现象是标准现代希腊语（SMG）和塞浦路斯希腊语（CG）中的过去时构成，因为它通过在过去时规则形成中对重音转移和重读音节增音[é]的不同使用，在这两种语言变体中表现出形态音位显著性实现的差异。参与者是具有典型语言发展（TD）的学龄前儿童和患有SLI的儿童。受试者在句子完成任务中生成真实动词（RV）和伪动词刺激（PV）。结果表明，过去时构成的形态音位特性影响了SLI儿童的表现，但未影响TD儿童的表现。我们将结果归因于每种变体中增音的地位差异及其在语音接口上对其实现的影响。此外，动词的可收缩性似乎给所有组的表现都带来了特别的困难。
