Syntactic gender agreement processing on direct object clitics by Spanish-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from ERP

<b>C</b>hildren with specific language Impairment (SLI) have a psycholinguistic profile evincing multiple syntactic processing impairments. Spanish-speaking children with SLI struggle with gender agreement on clitics, however the existing evidence comes from offline, elicitation tasks. In the current study, we seek to determine whether converging evidence of this deficit can be found. In particular, we use the real-time processing technique of event-related brain potentials (ERP) with direct object clitic pronouns in Spanish-speaking children with SLI. @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:宋体; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 680460288 22 0 262145 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Palatino Linotype"; panose-1:2 4 5 2 5 5 5 3 3 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870265 1073741843 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:"\@SimSun"; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 680460288 22 0 262145 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; text-align:justify; text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:13.0pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN; mso-no-proof:yes;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}

特定语言障碍（Specific Language Impairment, SLI）儿童的心理语言学特征表现为存在多种句法加工损伤。罹患SLI的西班牙语儿童在黏着语的性一致匹配上存在困难，但现有相关证据均来自离线诱导任务范式。本研究旨在探明该句法缺陷是否可获得汇聚性实验证据支持。具体而言，本研究针对罹患SLI的西班牙语儿童，采用事件相关脑电位（Event-Related Potentials, ERP）这一实时语言加工技术，结合西班牙语直接宾语黏着代词开展相关实验。