Aspectual Production in Preschool Mandarin-speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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- Chen, Lijun ORCID Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
- He, Xiaowei Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
- Durrleman, Stephanie University of Fribourg
- 2025
Published in:
- Journal of Child Language. - Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 2025, p. 1-32
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD); ; ; ; ;
Grammatical aspect
Asymmetrical performance
Perfectivity
Heterogeneous performance
Verbal working memory (VWM)
English
Using a priming picture-description, a digital recall and a non-word repetition task, this
study tested 18 four- to six-year-old Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental
Language Disorder (DLD) and 25 age-matched typically developing (TD) children to
examine the performance of children with DLD in producing grammatical aspect and the
links of their performance to verbal working memory (VWM). Results indicated that
children with DLD performed worse in producing individual aspect markers than TD
children, showing better performance on the preverbal zai- than on the post-verbal markers.
They showed better performance in producing imperfective than perfective aspect. Heterogeneous
performance was noted in aspectual production within the DLD group, but only
performance on -guo and perfective aspect significantly correlated with their VWM.
Findings highlight the importance of positional and aspectual distinctions in assessment
and intervention for Mandarin-speaking children with DLD, and they provide languagespecific
evidence for cross-linguistic asymmetries in aspect acquisition in language
disorders.
study tested 18 four- to six-year-old Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental
Language Disorder (DLD) and 25 age-matched typically developing (TD) children to
examine the performance of children with DLD in producing grammatical aspect and the
links of their performance to verbal working memory (VWM). Results indicated that
children with DLD performed worse in producing individual aspect markers than TD
children, showing better performance on the preverbal zai- than on the post-verbal markers.
They showed better performance in producing imperfective than perfective aspect. Heterogeneous
performance was noted in aspectual production within the DLD group, but only
performance on -guo and perfective aspect significantly correlated with their VWM.
Findings highlight the importance of positional and aspectual distinctions in assessment
and intervention for Mandarin-speaking children with DLD, and they provide languagespecific
evidence for cross-linguistic asymmetries in aspect acquisition in language
disorders.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Section de médecine
- Language
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- English
- License
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CC BY
- Open access status
- hybrid
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1017/S0305000925100275
- ISSN 0305-0009
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/333772
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