The syntactic and semantic features of two-year olds’ verb vocabularies: A comparison of typically developing children and late talkers
| Autor: | Leslie Rescorla, Sabrina Horvath, Sudha Arunachalam |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Linguistics and Language Vocabulary Semantic feature media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verb Language Development 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Article Child Development Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Language Development Disorders General Psychology media_common Retrospective Studies 05 social sciences Language acquisition Syntax Linguistics Vocabulary development Semantics Feature (linguistics) Language development Case-Control Studies Child Preschool Female Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | J Child Lang |
| Popis: | Children with language disorders have particular difficulty with verbs, but when this difficulty emerges is unknown. We examined syntactic (transitive, intransitive, ditransitive) and semantic (manner, result) features of two-year-olds’ verb vocabularies, contrasting late talkers and typically developing children to look for early differences in verb vocabulary. We conducted a retrospective analysis of parent-reported expressive vocabulary from the Language Development Survey (N = 564, N(LT) = 62) (Rescorla, 1989). Verbs were coded for the presence or absence of each syntactic and semantic feature. Binomial mixed-effects regressions revealed the effect of feature on children's knowledge and whether feature interacted with group classification. Our results revealed mostly similarities between late talkers and typically developing children. All children's vocabularies showed a bias against verbs that occur in ditransitive frames. One feature showed a difference between groups: late talkers showed a bias against manner verbs that typically developing children did not. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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