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SUMMARY:On-line processing of articles and clitics by Greek children with 
 SLI - Theo Marinis\, School of Psychology and Clinical Language\, Universi
 ty of Reading
DTSTART:20091201T160000Z
DTEND:20091201T173000Z
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CONTACT:Chris Cummins
DESCRIPTION:Cross-linguistic research has shown that children with SLI oft
 en omit definite articles and clitic pronouns in their production (e.g. Ci
 priani et al. 1997\; Jakubowicz et al. 1998).  For Greek\, definite articl
 es and direct object clitics have been suggested to consistute clinical ma
 rkers for SLI because they are uninterpretable in contrast to indefinite a
 rticles which are interpretable (Tsimpli and Stavrakaki 1999).  To date\, 
 very few studies have investigated SLI children's sensitivity to omissions
  of grammatical morphemes during on-line processing (Montgomery and Leonar
 d 1998\, 2006).  In my talk I will present data from our ongoing project '
 Cross-linguistic study on the production and processing of grammatical mor
 phemes in L2 children compared to children with Specific Language Impairme
 nt'.  The talk will focus on how 6-to-8 year old Greek children with SLI a
 nd age-matched typically developing children process articles and clitics 
 using a self-paced listening task involving grammatical sentences and ungr
 ammatical sentences with omission of definite articles in subject and obje
 ct position\, indefinite articles in object position\, and direct object c
 litic pronouns.  The results will be discussed in relation to theories of 
 SLI and the properties of articles and clitics in Greek.
LOCATION:GR-05\, English Faculty Building
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