0433849 - PSÚ 2015 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Smolík, Filip - Vávrů, P.
Sentence Imitation as a Marker of SLI in Czech: Disproportionate Impairment of Verbs and Clitics.
Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. Roč. 57, č. 3 (2014), s. 837-849. ISSN 1092-4388. E-ISSN 1558-9102
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Keywords : sentences * specific language impairment * verbs
Subject RIV: AN - Psychology
Impact factor: 2.070, year: 2014 ; AIS: 0.9, rok: 2014
Result website:
http://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/Article.aspx?articleid=1865523DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/2014_JSLHR-L-12-0384

Purpose: The authors examined sentence imitation as a potential clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI) in Czech and its use to identify grammatical markers of SLI. Method: Children with SLI and the age- and language-matched control groups (total N = 57) were presented with a sentence imitation task, a receptive vocabulary task, and digit span and nonword repetition tasks. Sentence imitations were scored for accuracy and error types. Results: Children with SLI had substantially more inaccurate imitations than the control groups. The differences in the memory measures could not account for the differences between children with SLI and the control groups in imitation accuracy, even though they accounted for the differences between the language-matched and age-matched control groups. Conclusion: Sentence imitation is a sensitive marker of SLI. Verbs and clitics are the most vulnerable categories in Czech SLI.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0238046