Moore M E
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Illinois State University, Normal 61790-4720, USA.
J Commun Disord. 1995 Mar;28(1):57-72. doi: 10.1016/0021-9924(94)00007-m.
Recent research has located extraordinary weakness in specifically language-impaired (SLI) children's development other than grammatical morphemes. A problem with pronoun case marking was reported to be more prevalent in SLI children than in normally developing children matched by mean length of utterance. However, results from the present study do not support that finding. Spontaneous utterances from 3 conversational contexts were generated by 3 groups of normal and SLI children and were analyzed for accuracy of pronoun usage. Third person singular pronouns were judged according to case, gender, number, person and cohesion based on their linguistic and nonlinguistic contexts. Results indicated that SLI children exhibited more total errors than their chronological peers, but not more than their language level peers. An analysis of error types indicated a similar pattern in pronoun case marking.
近期研究发现，特定语言障碍（SLI）儿童在语法语素之外的语言发展方面存在异常薄弱之处。据报道，代词格标记问题在SLI儿童中比在按平均语句长度匹配的正常发育儿童中更为普遍。然而，本研究的结果并不支持这一发现。三组正常儿童和SLI儿童在三种对话情境中产生了自发话语，并对代词使用的准确性进行了分析。根据第三人称单数代词在语言和非语言语境中的情况、性别、数量、人称和衔接性对其进行判断。结果表明，SLI儿童出现的总错误比同龄儿童多，但不比语言水平相当的儿童多。对错误类型的分析表明，代词格标记方面存在类似模式。
