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February 26, 2026Communication Disorders Quarterly

Lexical Responses to Subject Pronoun Priming: Assessment Considerations for Preschoolers with Inconsistent Case Marking

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CFColleen E. FitzgeraldLRLauren Riggleman

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Overview

Explores pronoun case accuracy in preschoolers, indicating implications for assessment strategies.

Key Points

  • The study aims to examine the relationship between pronoun case accuracy in preschoolers and structural priming.
  • Assess spontaneous language samples from 17 preschoolers with developmental language disorder.
  • Calculate categorical measures based on case errors and responses to formal priming items.
  • Utilize a standardized assessment to investigate pronoun usage in subject position.
  • Preschoolers who made spontaneous pronoun case errors less frequently used correct subject pronouns. Duk instead, they used lexical noun phrases.
  • Findings suggest that a basic understanding of English's case system is necessary for effective structural priming.

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Fitzgerald et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699fe34695ddcd3a253e705bhttps://doi.org/10.1177/15257401261424237
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