title: What can errors tell us about specific language impairment deficits? Semantic and morphological cuing in a sentence completion task.
abstract: The lexical retrieval ability of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with typical language development was compared. Fifty Hebrew-speaking children participated: 15 school-age with SLI, 20 typically developing, matched on age to the SLI group and 15 younger, typically developing matched on naming performance to the SLI group. Participants were tested in a sentence completion task with semantic cuing and with morphological cuing. SLI children performed poorer than the chronological-age group and similarly to the naming-matched group. Error patterns showed a qualitative difference between the SLI and naming-matched groups. The results suggest that lexical retrieval of children with SLI is delayed and qualitatively different from that of typically developing children.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders , University of Haifa , Haifa , Israel .|b The Center for the Study of Communication and the Deaf, Boston University , Boston , MA , USA .
authors.forename: Rama
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Novogrodsky
authors.affiliation: c Department of Special Education , Gordon College of Education , Haifa , Israel , and.|d Department of Special Education , Kibbutzim College of Education , Tel Aviv , Israel.
authors.forename: Varda
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kreiser
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007805:Language Development Disorders; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics
keywords: Derivation; SLI; lexical-retrieval; morphological-cueing; semantic-cueing; sentence-completion