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In the assessment of Spanish-English bilinguals, research has identified articles and direct object clitics as two grammatical markers of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Analysis of children’s productions of articles and direct object clitics reveals information on a child’s language ability in Spanish (Castilla-Earls et al., 2020). The current study aims to further investigate the clinical utility of articles and direct object clitics in the assessment of Spanish-English bilingual children with and without DLD by comparing the accuracy and productivity of these grammatical markers during spontaneous language samples. Productivity, the breadth and diversity of children’s productions of grammatical markers, has been shown to yield group differences between children with and without DLD (Gladfelter & Leonard, 2013). In the current study, we examine the productivity of articles and direct object clitics in the language samples of 32 children. Preliminary analyses show that all children in this study demonstrate a high accuracy of articles and direct object clitics and that productivity is useful for capturing the emerging language abilities of these young bilingual children. This work was funded by an NIH F31 fellowship (1F31HD111303-01). |
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