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KMID : 1036820190240040868
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Communication Sciences & Disorders
2019 Volume.24 No. 4 p.868 ~ p.880
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Comprehension of Spatial Nouns Using a Locative Case Marker in Korean Preschool Children with Specific Language Impairment
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Choi Sung-Yi
Lee Hee-Ran
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of morphosyntactic cues using a locative case marker to infer the meaning of spatial nouns for Korean preschool children with specific language impairment (SLI).
Methods: Participants included 15 SLI children, aged 5 to 6 years, who were compared to 15 typically developing (TD) children matched for age. This study examined the ability of comprehension of spatial nouns using the case marker ‘-ey’ in two groups of children through a simple composition task and a multiple composition task.
Results: In the simple composition task, the group of children with SLI could choose the appropriate spatial relationship scene as well as the TD group. However, in the multiple composition task, the SLI group showed lower performance than the TD group.
Conclusion: The SLI group was more difficult than TD group to interpret the meaning of new nouns into spatial nouns with cue to ‘-ey’ in the complex multiple composition task. In this study, we interpreted the limitations of fast mapping the difficulty of understanding spatial nouns in children with SLI, the difficulties of morphological syntactic bootstrapping, and related factors. In conclusion, this study suggests that for children with SLI, an effective vocabulary intervention is required. This involves a clinical intervention focusing on syntactic aspects, such as grammatical morphemes, sentence structure, as well as focusing on the meaning of words.
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KEYWORD
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Spatial nouns, Specific language impairment (SLI), Morphosyntactic bootstrapping
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