Comprehension of Mandarin Aspect Markers by Preschool Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) reportedly struggle with the comprehension of aspect. However, since aspect and tense are closely entangled in the languages spoken by the children with DLD in previous studies, it is unclear whether the difficulty stems from aspect, tense, or both. Mandarin Chinese, a language without morphological manifestations of tense, is ideal to investigate whether the comprehension of aspect is specifically affected in children with DLD, yet to date work on this is scarce and presents methodological limitations. In this study, we examined whether preschool Mandarin-speaking children with DLD have difficulty in comprehending perfective aspect (represented with the aspect marker -le) compared to imperfective aspect (represented with the aspec

SUBMITTER: Chen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9097452 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature