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Syntactic Gender Agreement Processing on Direct-Object Clitics by Spanish-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence from ERP
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Thal, ía Fernández Mario, Rodríguez-Camacho Roa-Rojas, Paloma Grinstead, John Silva-Pereyra, Juan |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have a psycholinguistic profile evincing multiple syntactic processing impairments. Spanish-speaking children with DLD struggle with gender agreement on clitics; however, the existing evidence comes from offline, elicitation tasks. In the current study, we sought to determine whether converging evidence of this deficit can be found. In particular, we use the real-time processing technique of event-related brain potentials (ERP) with direct-object clitic pronouns in Spanish-speaking children with DLD. Our participants include 15 six-year-old Mexican Spanish-speaking children with DLD and 19 typically developing, age-matched (TD) children. Auditory sentences that matched or did not match the gender features of antecedents represented in pictures were employed as stimuli in a visual–auditory gender agreement task. Gender-agreement violations were associated with an enhanced anterior negativity between 250 and 500 ms post-target onset in the TD children group. In contrast, children with DLD showed no such effect. This absence of the left anterior negativity (LAN) effect suggests weaker lexical representation of morphosyntactic gender features and/or non-adult-like morphosyntactic gender feature checking for the DLD children. We discuss the relevance of these findings for theoretical accounts of DLD. Our findings may contribute to a better understanding of syntactic agreement processing and language disorders. |
| Starting Page | 175 |
| e-ISSN | 22279067 |
| DOI | 10.3390/children8030175 |
| Journal | Children |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-02-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Children Audiology and Language Specific Language Impairment Clitics Erp Gender Agreement Spanish |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
