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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol.46 368-381 April 2003. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2003/029)
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Repair Behavior in Children With Intellectual Impairments

Evidence for Metalinguistic Competence

Y. Levy 1
A. Tennebaum 2

A. Ornoy 1
1 Hebrew University Medical School Jerusalem, Israel
2 The Jerusalem Institute for Child and Family Development Israel

msyonata{at}mscc.huji.ac.il

This paper tested the prediction that children with cognitive impairments who can use language intentionally will be able to carry out the metalinguistic operations involved in speech monitoring and repair. The specific linguistic characteristics of responses to requests for clarification given by 4 children with lower than normal IQ, ages 3 years 5 months to 6 years 10 months, were investigated. The analysis focused on children's ability to locate the specific errors that provoked neutral requests for clarification and produce repair. Three children could locate their errors and partly succeed in providing repair. It is suggested that ability to perform metaprocedures such as are implicated in repair behavior may be preserved in children with intellectual disabilities and that this ability does not implicate conscious awareness, nor does it depend on mature linguistic competence.

KEY WORDS: repair, metalinguistic, retardation, language development

Submitted on May 29, 2002
Accepted on November 26, 2002






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