RT Journal Article
T1 Specific Language Impairment: Evaluation and detection of differential psycholinguistic markers in phonology and morphosyntax in Spanish-speaking children.
A1 Buiza-Navarrete, Juan José
A1 Rodríguez-Parra, María José
A1 González-Sánchez, Mercedes
A1 Adrián-Torres, José Antonio
K1 Psicolingüística
K1 Competencia comunicativa
K1 Lenguaje - Trastornos
AB The diagnosis of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is very complex. Knowledge about the linguistic markers of SLI can facilitate its differentiation from the normal profile of language development. These markers can also be used as tools that may improve diagnostic. Aims: To determine which psycholinguistic markers best discriminate Spanish-speaking children with SLI from children with typical language development. Method: The performance of 31 Spanish-speaking children with SLI was analysed using a battery of 13 psycholinguistic tasks organized into two areas: phonology and morphosyntax. The performance of the SLI group was compared to that of two subgroups of controls: aged matched (CA) and linguistically matched (CL).Results: The data show that the SLI group performed worse than the CA subgroup on all 13 verbal tasks. However, the performance of the SLI group did not significantly differ from that of the CL subgroup on most (11/13) of the tasks. Stepwise discriminant analysis established the canonical function of three tasks (morphologic integration, sentence understanding and diadochokinesis) which significantly discriminated SLI from CA, with sensitivity 84% and specificity 90%. Conclusions: These results contribute to determining the psycholinguistic characteristics of SLI in Spanish-speaking children and provide some methods for screening assessment.
PB Elsevier
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40853
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40853
LA eng
NO Buiza, J.J., Rodríguez-Parra, M.J., González-Sánchez, M. y Adrián, J.A. (2016). Specific Language Impairment: Evaluation and detection of differential Psycholinguistic markers in phonology and morphosyntax in Spanish-speaking children. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 58: 65-82
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/16082
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 23 ene 2026