Parsing the Passive: Comparing Children With Specific Language Impairment to Sequential Bilingual Children

Theodoros Marinis · Douglas Saddy

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Twenty-five monolingual (L1) children with specific language impairment (SLI), 32 sequential bilingual (L2) children, and 29 L1 controls completed the Test of Active & Passive Sentences-Revised (van der Lely 1996 van der Lely, Heather K. J. 1998. SLI in children: movement, economy and deficits in the computational syntactic system. Language Acquisition, 72: 161–192. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) and the Self-Paced Listening Task with Picture Verification for actives and passives (Marinis 2007 Marinis, Theodoros. 2007. “On-line processing of passives in L1 and L2 children”. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), Edited by: Belikova, Alyona, Meroni, Luisa and Mari, Umeda. 265–276. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [Google Scholar]). These revealed important between-group differences in both tasks. The children with SLI showed difficulties in both actives and passives when they had to reanalyse thematic roles on-line. Their error pattern provided evidence for working memory limitations. The L2 children showed difficulties only in passives both on-line and off-line. We suggest that these relate to the complex syntactic algorithm in passives and reflect an earlier developmental stage due to reduced exposure to the L2. The results are discussed in relation to theories of SLI and can be best accommodated within accounts proposing that difficulties in the comprehension of passives stem from processing limitations.

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