Acquisition of German Noun Plurals in Typically Developing Children and Children with Specific Language Impairment

Table 4

Individual subject profiles: SLI group.

Subjects
Children		Se	Ja	Le	Ju1	La	Fa	Ju2	Ma
Age		4;11	4;9	4;0	4;3	4;7	5;0	4;6	4;5
MLU		3.16	2.54	3.19	3.19	3.07	3.64	3.47	3.77
Phonemic discrimination	T	33	43	13	38	—	—	0	48
	P	12	31	0	16	—	—	0	47
Noun comprehension	T	51	33	22	51	39	51	39	39
	P	54	7	2	54	17	54	17	17
Verb comprehension	T	65	39	26	39	34	36	34	30
	P	99	14	4	14	10	15	10	5
Adjective comprehension	T	51	37	29	22	40	58	40	51
	P	40	15	4	4	17	100	17	40
Comprehension of prepositions	T	33	24	24	33	41	59	33	59
	P	14	3	3	14	29	100	14	10
Object categorization	T	57	36	19	38	32	0	19	28
	P	82	6	0	10	3	0	0	0
Noun production	T	51	48	38	38	40	—	48	43
	P	53	37	8	8	10	—	37	17
Verb production	SD	≥−1 SD	≤1 SD	≤1 SD	≥−2 SD	≥−2 SD	—	≤1 SD	≥−1 SD
Adjective production	T	52	43	19	1	43	52	48	48
	P	61	21	2	1	21	61	33	33
Comprehension of wh-questions	T	45	35	35	24	45	0	29	24
	P	34	8	8	1	34	0	23	1
Production of the definite article	T	62	44	44	62	62	46	62	62
	P	100	40	40	100	100	46	100	100
Morphology (noun plurals, case marking)	T	40	31	28	34	31	36	31	34
	P	20	2	1	6	2	12	2	6

P: Percentile, T: 𝑡-value.