Words Created by Children Versus Aphasic Adults: An Analysis of Their Form and Communicative Effectiveness
| Autor: | Liederman J, Wolf M, Kohn S |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
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Anomia Verbal learning Language Development Vocabulary Developmental psychology Aphasia Wernicke Morpheme Concept learning Aphasia Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Child Life-span and Life-course Studies computer.programming_language Aphasia Broca Grade school Psycholinguistics Verbal Behavior Novelty Middle Aged Semantics Clinical Psychology El Niño Child Preschool Female Lexico medicine.symptom Psychology computer Child Language |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 147:379-393 |
| ISSN: | 1940-0896 0022-1325 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00221325.1986.9914512 |
| Popis: | The creation of words through the novel combination of English morphemes (e.g., "map ball" to refer to a globe) was studied in 40 preschool children, 40 grade school children, and 40 adults. These lexical innovations were collected while subjects named pictured objects, and were evaluated in terms of incidence, communicative effectiveness, novelty, semantic accuracy, and certain linguistic characteristics. Preschool children's innovations were as communicatively effective as those of grade school children and adults and contained the highest proportion of innovations with redundant elements. Grade school children produced the highest proportion with semantic inaccuracies. This suggests that preschoolers invent words from a limited set of highly familiar terms, whereas grade schoolers rely more on partially known terms. In addition, the children's innovations differed significantly from those previously collected from aphasic adults. This demonstrates that aphasia does not cause a regression to an early level of linguistic sophistication. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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