What's /depsilonr/? An anomalous error in a child with specific language impairment.
This longitudinal case study describes an anomalous error produced by a child with specific language impairment (SLI), MM, whose language development was documented from ages 3 through 7 years. Twelve spontaneous language samples were analysed. Across nine language samples MM produced the phonetic sequence /depsilonr/ in ungrammatical contexts as if it were the nominative third person plural pronoun, for example, with a past tense form (e.g. */depsilonr/ ate dinner). The phonetic sequence /depsilonr/ may have been either their, a case error, or they're, inclusion of a form of BE in an unexpected context. In this paper, we examine and describe the distribution of /depsilonr/ and the development of pronominal forms and the verb BE in order to account for the anomalous error.
Schuele
C Melanie
CM
Dept. of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. melanie.schuele@vanderbilt.edu
Haskill
Allison M
AM
Rispoli
Matthew
M
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013637:Tape Recording