Inflectional and derivational morphological spelling abilities of children with Specific Language Impairment

Sarah Critten; V. Connelly; J.E. Dockrell; K. Walter

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00948

Inflectional and derivational morphological spelling abilities of children with Specific Language Impairment

Sarah Critten, V. Connelly, J.E. Dockrell, K. Walter

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Abstract

Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) are known to have difficulties with spelling but the factors that underpin these difficulties, are a matter of debate. The present study investigated the impact of oral language and literacy on the bound morpheme spelling abilities of children with SLI. Thirty-three children with SLI (9-10 years) and two control groups, one matched for chronological age (CA) and one for language and spelling age (LA) (aged 6-8 years) were given dictated spelling tasks of 24 words containing inflectional morphemes and 18 words containing derivational morphemes. There were no significant differences between the SLI group and their LA matches in accuracy or error patterns for inflectional morphemes. By contrast when spelling derivational morphemes the SLI group was less accurate and made proportionately more omissions and phonologically implausible errors than both control groups. Spelling accuracy was associated with phonological awareness and reading; reading performance significantly predicted the ability to spell both inflectional and derivational morphemes. The particular difficulties experienced by the children with SLI for derivational morphemes are considered in relation to reading and oral language.

Original language	English
Article number	948
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00948
Publication status	Published - 27 Aug 2014

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Leverhulme Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Keywords

derivational
inflectional
language
morphemes
reading
SLI
spelling
writing

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