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Parental speech to SLI children and their younger siblings
Author(s) -
CONTIRAMSDEN GINA
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01668.x
Subject(s) - psychology , specific language impairment , developmental psychology , language development , context (archaeology) , linguistics , phrase , verb , communication disorder , language disorder , language acquisition , cognition , paleontology , philosophy , mathematics education , neuroscience , biology
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the nature and frequency of parental recasts (both mothers and fathers) to specific language impaired children (SLI) with that to normal language learning children of the same language stage. The comparisons were made within the framework of discourse function to include conversational contingency and conversational breakdown. In addition, the present investigation examined a natural but infrequently occurring situation where a family has both an SLI child and normal younger siblings of the same language stage. It was found that SLI children at the early stages of development (Stage I/early Stage II) experience a simple recast gap in their linguistic input. Furthermore, it was found that the conversational functional context in which simple recasts occurred for SLI children was also different. Further qualitative analysis revealed a preponderance of New Noun‐Phrase Informational Simple Recasts used with SLI children as opposed to New Verb‐Phrase Information Simple Recasts. These results and their implications are discussed within the context of similarities and differences between mothers versus fathers and SLI children versus normal language learning children.