Talk:Single Word Utterances/@comment-24947466-20150731192318

Early Action Word Acquisition in Normal and Language-Impaired Children Schwartz, Richard G. Applied Psycholinguistics9.2 (Jun 1988): 111-122.

The acquisition of words referring to three types of actions was examined in normally developing & lang-impaired children using a nonsense word paradigm. Lang-normal & lang-impaired children (N = 14, aged 1:5-1:11, & 10, aged 2:10-3:6, respectively) whose speech was limited to single-word utterances served as Ss. The children were presented with 12 experimental words in five sessions over a period of approximately three weeks. The experimental words referred to actions that were classified as intransitive, transitive, & specific to a particular object, or transitive but performed on four different objects. The children in both groups produced few of the action words. However, the groups differed in their comprehension of the three action word types. Specifically, the lang-impaired children did not exhibit differences in comprehension across the different types of action. The lang-normal children, however, comprehended fewer words for intransitive actions than for the other types. The implications of these findings for characterization of early lexical acquisition & for the nature of specific lang impairment are addressed. 38 References. HA

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