Barbara Stumper

• Dr.
• AWO Kinder, Jugend & Familie Weser-Ems GmbH

The present study aims at analysing the role of infinitival clauses (INFCs) in German child-adult dialogue. In German subject-less INFCs are a grammatical sentence pattern. Extensive corpora of spontaneous speech between 6 children aged 1;5 to 2;10 and adults were analysed applying structural and contextual analyses. We extended Freudenthal, Pine a...

Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Wirkung von Therapieangeboten im ambulanten und stationären Behandlungssetting auf die expressiven Wortschatzleistungen und das Bullying- und Viktimisierungsverhalten von Kindern mit Sprachentwicklungsstörungen sowie das mütterliche Belastungsempfinden innerhalb eines Jahres. Die Ergebnisse deut...

Kinder mit einer Grammatikerwerbsstörung weisen häufig Schwierigkeiten in der Kategorie Genus auf (Thelen, 2014). Nach Kruse (2010) ist die Therapie von Genus-Markierungen ein wichtiger Bestandteil in der Grammatiktherapie, was zum Zwecke von Therapieplanung und Therapieevaluation eine differenzierte Diagnostik erforderlich macht. Genus kann nach s...

In German, all nouns are either assigned a masculine (der), feminine (die) or neuter (das) gender. Nouns provide morphophonological cues carried by word endings and semantic cues (natural gender) to potentially guide gender attribution (Wegener, 1995, Köpke & Zubin, 1984). While typically developing children master grammatical gender as marked on a...

An Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers

Background The aim of this study was to examine if the parental questionnaire FRAKIS (German CDI questionnaire on early language development) is a valid instrument for assessing linguistic progress in children with cochlear implants (CI). Descriptive statistics on the course of language acquisition in children with CI will also be presented. Materi...

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine if the parental questionnaire FRAKIS (German CDI questionnaire on early language development) is a valid instrument for assessing linguistic progress in children with cochlear implants (CI). Descriptive statistics on the course of language acquisition in children with CI will also be presented. MATE...

Purpose The authors investigated the influence of social environmental variables and age at implantation on language development in children with cochlear implants. Method Participants were 25 children with cochlear implants and their parents. Age at implantation ranged from 6 months to 42 months (Mage = 20.4 months, SD = 22.0 months). Linguistic...

Mintz (2003) found that in English child-directed speech, frequently occurring frames formed by linking the preceding (A) and succeeding (B) word (A_x_B) could accurately predict the syntactic category of the intervening word (x). This has been successfully extended to French (Chemla, Mintz, Bernal, & Christophe, 2009). In this paper, we show that,...

Valian (1991) proposes that children's use of verb-argument structure is based on abstract knowledge of verb categories and limited by shortcomings of performance. Theakston, Lieven, Pine & Rowland (2001) provide evidence that children's transitive and intransitive verb use is learnt gradually and influenced by verb use in the input. The present st...

The acquisition of noun gender on articles was studied in a sample of 21 young German-speaking children. Longitudinal spontaneous speech data were used. Data analysis is based on 22 two-hourly speech samples per child from 6 children between 1;4 and 3;8 and on 5 two-hourly speech samples per child from 15 children between 1;4 and 1;10. The use of g...

Using a parent report instrument, the development of vocabulary and grammar was examined in 333 German-speaking children aged between 1;6 and 2;6. Grammar scales measured sentence complexity and inflectional morphology. Results indicate that vocabulary increased faster than sentence complexity and inflectional morphology. Within inflectional paradi...