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dc.contributor | Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies | en_US |
dc.creator | Lai, J | en_US |
dc.creator | Chan, A | en_US |
dc.creator | Kidd, E | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-26T05:56:10Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-26T05:56:10Z | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/104986 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2023 Lai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_US |
dc.rights | The following publication Lai J, Chan A, Kidd E (2023) Relative clause comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0288021 is available at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288021. | en_US |
dc.title | Relative clause comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 18 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0288021 | en_US |
dcterms.abstract | Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), present in 2 out of every 30 children, affects primarily oral language abilities and development in the absence of associated biomedical conditions. We report the first experimental study that examines relative clause (RC) comprehension accuracy and processing (via looking preference) in Cantonese-speaking children with and without DLD, testing the predictions from competing domain-specific versus domain-general theoretical accounts. We compared children with DLD (N = 22) with their age-matched typically-developing (TD) children (AM-TD, N = 23) aged 6;6–9;7 and language-matched (and younger) TD children (YTD, N = 21) aged 4;7–7;6, using a referent selection task. Within-subject factors were: RC type (subject-RCs (SRCs) versus object-RCs (ORCs); relativizer (classifier (CL) versus relative marker ge3 RCs). Accuracy measures and looking preference to the target were analyzed using generalized linear mixed effects models. Results indicated Cantonese children with DLD scored significantly lower than their AM-TD peers in accuracy and processed RCs significantly slower than AM-TDs, but did not differ from the YTDs on either measure. Overall, while the results revealed evidence of a SRC advantage in the accuracy data, there was no indication of additional difficulty associated with ORCs in the eye-tracking data. All children showed a processing advantage for the frequent CL relativizer over the less frequent ge3 relativizer. These findings pose challenges to domain-specific representational deficit accounts of DLD, which primarily explain the disorder as a syntactic deficit, and are better explained by domain-general accounts that explain acquisition and processing as emergent properties of multiple converging linguistic and non-linguistic processes. | en_US |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | PLoS one, 7 Nov. 2023, v. 18, no. 11, e0288021 | en_US |
dcterms.isPartOf | PLoS one | en_US |
dcterms.issued | 2023-11-07 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | a2660 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1932-6203 | en_US |
dc.identifier.artn | e0288021 | en_US |
dc.description.validate | 202403 bcch | en_US |
dc.description.oa | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.identifier.SubFormID | 48030 | - |
dc.description.fundingSource | Others | en_US |
dc.description.fundingText | This research was supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), awarded by the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, to the first author, and a research grant titled “Asymmetries in Cantonese Children's Comprehension and Production of Relative Clauses: Structure, Typology and Processing” (PolyU 156072/17H; PI: Chan), awarded by the Research Grants Council General Research Fund, Hong Kong, and a research grant titled “Relative Clause Processing in Cantonese-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment: A Pilot Study” (P0001890, 4-ZZHF; PI: Chan), awarded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to the second author. | en_US |
dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
dc.description.oaCategory | CC | en_US |
dc.relation.rdata | https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9PVWT | en_US |
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