Morphological Difficulties in People with Developmental Language Disorder
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Instrument
2.3. Procedure
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Group with DLD | Group with TD | |
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Mean chronological age | 9.3 (SD = 2.9) | 9.21 (SD = 2.94) |
Range age (years) | 5.66–14.75 | 5.83–14.75 |
Gender | 18 females and 29 males | 25 females and 18 males |
Morphology subareas | Group with DLD (n = 47) | Group with TD (n = 43) |
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Plurals: singulars ending in vowel | 8.26 (2.2) | 9.53 (0.9) |
Plurals: singulars ending in consonant | 7.38 (2.9) | 9.58 (0.9) |
Adjectives | 8.21 (2.2) | 9.70 (0.7) |
Regular verb forms: Present | 5.49 (3.2) | 8.98 (2.3) |
Regular verb forms: Past | 4.66 (3.8) | 7.86 (3.0) |
Regular verb forms: Future | 3.28 (3.7) | 7.81 (3.4) |
Regular verb forms: Imperfect | 2.40 (3.0) | 7.35 (3.4) |
Irregular verb forms: Present | 4.06 (3.2) | 8.05 (2.7) |
Irregular verb forms: Past | 2.06 (2.5) | 6.16 (2.9) |
Irregular verb forms: Future | 2.04 (3.1) | 6.86 (3.6) |
Participles | 4.23 (3.2) | 8.35 (2.3) |
Comparatives and superlatives | 3.43 (2.9) | 7.33 (3.2) |
Derived nouns: Professions | 4.79 (2.7) | 8.49 (1.4) |
Derived nouns | 2.57 (2.6) | 7.4 (2.4) |
Derived adjectives | 3.32 (3.0) | 7.65 (2.3) |
Personal pronouns: Subjects | 3.98 (3.5) | 8.35 (2.1) |
Personal pronouns acting as object | 1.57 (2.8) | 5.53 (3.7) |
Reflexives | 3.13 (3.0) | 7.42 (3.0) |
Possessives | 3.66 (3.5) | 7.63 (2.8) |
Group with DLD (n = 47) | Group with TD (n = 43) | |
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Total scores | 78.53 (39.4) | 150.02 (35.2) |
Range total scores | 44–190 | 12–170 |
Percentile scores | 14.15 (23.8) | 78.91 (25.8) |
Range percentile scores | 23–100 | 0–85 |
Transformed scores | 39.62 (26.6) | 78.43 (30.7) |
Range transformed scores | 23–100 | 6–93 |
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Moraleda-Sepúlveda, E.; López-Resa, P. Morphological Difficulties in People with Developmental Language Disorder. Children 2022, 9, 125. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020125
Moraleda-Sepúlveda E, López-Resa P. Morphological Difficulties in People with Developmental Language Disorder. Children. 2022; 9(2):125. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020125
Chicago/Turabian StyleMoraleda-Sepúlveda, Esther, and Patricia López-Resa. 2022. "Morphological Difficulties in People with Developmental Language Disorder" Children 9, no. 2: 125. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020125