Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and morphosyntactic development in children
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2015/06/0002/000239Keywords:
OSAS, children, morphosyntactic developmentAbstract
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a common sleep disorder that ranges up to 3% in childhood epidemiological studies. Language acquisition seems to be affected by OSAS' occurrence but until now research has examined the general language ability without focusing on specific language areas. Therefore, we focused on the morphosyntactic ability of 25 children with OSAS (aged 4.1–6.11) and 25 typically developing children (TDC) of the same age. Performance in morphosyntax was tested by using two subtests (morphosyntactic comprehension and morphosyntactic production) of a standardized language test. Results showed that children with OSAS had significantly lower performance in morphosyntactic production compared to TDC. However, we found no statistically significant difference in morphosyntactic comprehension between the two groups.
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