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| Grodzinsky and Kave (1993/4) |
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| Do children know condition A? Found children aged 5-6 do, but the younger ones may be using a non-linguistic strategy. But results were not clear, because the 5-6 year olds did not perform near 100% on 2 of the constructions. But children identified the reflexive mismatch accurately, whereas a non-linguistic strategy would say they'd accept it. Youngers chose wrong reflexive mismatch half of the time, perhaps cos can't check against Condition A. |
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| Van der Lely and Stollwerk (1997) |
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| Binding and SLI. Gave 12 frammatical SLI children aged 9;3-12;10 and controls a sentence-picture masking task. Children with SLI used semantic cues to find the antecedent. When knowledge of syntactic constraints is needed, SLI children found it difficult - supports innateness. |
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The trace deletion hypothesis, theta roles and cognitive strategies.
An anagram task was used to test agrammatic patients' comprehension of active and passive sentences containing verbs of three different thematic types (external argument of agent, instrument or experiencer). On all active sentences, performance was above chance, but on passives performance was split. For verbs with agent or instrument external agruments, performance was at chance, but for verbs with experiencer external argument, performance was below chance. This argues for the existence of the trace deletion hypothesis - the agrammatic patients are using trace deletion and a strategy (first NP=agent). The strategy explains for chance performance on agent and instrument verbs. |
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| Clahsen and Almazon (1998) |
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| Syntax and morphology in williams syndrome. Despite low IQ, syntax is not impaired, but irregular inflection is. This is different from the inpairment in SLI, where both are impaired. Supports the view that there's a computational system and associative memory system for language |
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| Levy and Friedmann (2005) |
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| A case study of a 12;2 yr old child with syntactic SLI. Looked at syntactic movement, had trouble with it. Had 16 sessions of therapy teaching the syntax explicitly, and subject showed substantial improvement in assessment, and the subject generalised movement to untrained structures. Performance level was maintained 10 months after treatment. |
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Burzio's Generalization (1986) |
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A predicate that assigns no external theta role cannot assign accusative case |
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