Prosodic constraints on inflected words: An area of difficulty for German-speaking children with specific language impairment?

Kauschke, Christina; Renner, Lena; Domahs, Ulrike

doi:10.3109/02699206.2013.798033

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“…There is also evidence that the prosodic skills of children with language impairments significantly correlate with their grammar expression skills (Samuelsson and Nettelbladt, 2004, Sundström et al., 2019). These results support the view that the prosodic impairments of children with DLD could contribute to explaining their problems in morpho‐syntax (Kauschke et al., 2013, Richards and Goswami, 2019).…”

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“…In addition, German‐speaking children with DLD have been found to be less sensitive to prosodic cues that help in the acquisition of grammatical rules (Kauschke et al., 2013). There is also evidence that the prosodic skills of children with language impairments significantly correlate with their grammar expression skills (Samuelsson and Nettelbladt, 2004, Sundström et al., 2019).…”

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Prosodic skills of Spanish‐speaking children with developmental language disorder

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Martín-Peregrina

Jiménez-Fernández

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Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background: Phonological difficulties in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are well documented. However, abilities regarding prosody, the rhythmic and melodic characteristics of language, have been less widely studied, particularly in Spanish. Moreover, the scant research findings that have been reported are contradictory. These considerations justify our new research into the question, focusing on Spanish-speaking children with DLD.Aims: To examine a wide range of prosodic skills among Spanish-speaking children with DLD. To analyse the relationships between prosody and other language measurements.Methods & Procedures: Prosodic skills were assessed through the Spanish version of the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C) battery. The performance of 19 children aged 5-11 years with DLD was compared with that of a chronological age-matched control group of 19 typically developing children. Language skills were also assessed.Outcomes & Results: There were significant differences between the group with DLD and the control group in terms of skills involving prosody functions and forms: turn-end and chunking signalling, contrastive focus and affect expression and understanding, discriminating and the imitation of prosodic patterns in both words and phrases. Conclusions & Implications: Spanish-speaking children with DLD present impairments not only when prosody interacts with language but also in the processing of prosody alone. The study results suggest that prosody is related to lexicon and grammar in children with DLD. The prosodic impairments of Spanishspeaking children with DLD could produce a negative impact on their language functioning and could also relate to their emotional and social difficulties. Consideration should therefore be given to focusing future interventions on prosodic skills in Spanish-speaking children with DLD.

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Prosodic skills of Spanish‐speaking children with developmental language disorder

Calet

Martín-Peregrina

Jiménez-Fernández

et al. 2021

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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“…The same group was also tested regarding morphophonological aspects of plural formation (Kauschke et al . ). All the children were living in a central region of Germany (the federal state of Hesse), where they were tested individually by a speech and language pathologist in their school or kindergarten, after informed written consent was obtained from schools and parents.…”

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Past participle formation in specific language impairment

Kauschke

Renner

Domahs

2016

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

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“…In these tests, learners were asked to produce plurals for 151 existing and 76 nonce German singular noun forms (randomized for each person and test). The testing method is similar to Kauschke et al (2013) at each timepoint.…”

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Practical Prosody: New Hope for Teaching German Plurals

Schuhmann

Smith

2022

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German plural formation appears unsystematic and largely arbitrary to many second language (L2) learners. While some approaches have attempted to identify patterns and rules to help L2 learners (e.g., Anton et al., 2017; Di Donato & Clyde, 2020; Kraiss, 2014), one central observation from linguistic analysis has been absent from pedagogical advances: German plurals show a strong tendency to end in a syllabic trochee (e.g., Wegener, 1999; Wiese, 2000, 2001, 2009). This article seeks to bridge the gap between linguistic insights and L2 pedagogy by presenting an instructional approach integrating the trochee. We provide support for this approach based on an exploratory study comparing two groups of L2 speakers that both received several suffix‐predicting rules for specific word endings and completed controlled practice exercises on plurals. Crucially, only one group received additional instruction on the prosodic pattern of German plurals. While both groups made gains, the prosodic training group showed a greater increase in confidence and accuracy in plural formation, particularly among lower‐proficiency speakers. The prosodic training group also produced more trochaic plurals for nonce words, thus responding more like native speakers. Overall, we suggest that this linguistically‐informed strategy might help students learn plurals more effectively by delimiting suffix options based on prosody.

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Prosodic constraints on inflected words: An area of difficulty for German-speaking children with specific language impairment?

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Prosodic skills of Spanish‐speaking children with developmental language disorder

Prosodic skills of Spanish‐speaking children with developmental language disorder

Past participle formation in specific language impairment

Practical Prosody: New Hope for Teaching German Plurals

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