Language development in rural and urban Russian-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorderстатья
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Аннотация:Using a newly developed Assessment of the Development of Russian Language (ORRIA), we investigated differ- ences in language development between rural vs. urban Russian-speaking children (n = 100 with a mean age of 6.75) subdivided into groups with and without developmental language disorders. Using classical test theory and item response theory approaches, we found that while ORRIA displayed overall satisfactory psychometric prop- erties, several of its items showed differential item functioning favoring rural children, and several others favor- ing urban children. After the removal of these items, rural children significantly underperformed on ORRIA compared to urban children. The urbanization factor did not significantly interact with language group. We dis- cuss the latter finding in the context of the multiple additive risk factors for language development and empha- size the need for future studies of the mechanisms that underlie these influences and the implications of these findings for our understanding of the etiological architecture of children's language development.