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The Count-Mass Distinction in Typically Developing and Grammatically Specifically Language Impaired Children: New Evidence on the Role of Syntax and Semantics
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Froud, Karen; van der Lely, Heather K. J. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008
By the age of three, typically developing children can draw conceptual distinctions between "kinds of individual" and "kinds of stuff" on the basis of syntactic structures. They differ from adults only in the extent to which syntactic knowledge can be over-ridden by semantic properties of the referent. However, the relative roles of syntax and…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
Deaf Children's Revision Behaviors in Conversations.
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Hughes, Mary C.; James, Sharon L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1985
The study investigated 14 school-age deaf children's responses to a listener's indication of communication breakdown and examined whether responses were related to syntactic or semantic abilities and/or typical mode of communication. Most revisions involved changes in sentence constituents. The frequency of revisions, repetitions, and no responses…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Elementary Education, Semantics
Reeducation Strategies in Conduction Aphasia.
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Cubelli, Roberto; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1988
The article proposes a reeducation program for conduction aphasics with reproductive difficulties. Program characteristics include analysis and manipulation of visual stimuli (written words and syllables), suppression of the compensation effect of the spared lexical-semantic system; and progressive increase in length and complexity of phonological…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps, Phonology
Language and Development in FG Syndrome with Callosal Agenesis.
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McCardle, Peggy; Wilson, Bruce – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1993
The FG syndrome is characterized by unusual facies; sudden infant death; developmental delay; and abnormalities of the cardiac, gastrointestinal, and central nervous systems. Serial evaluations of one case with isolated agenesis of the corpus callosum found consistent patterns over time in specific language impairments in syntactic and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Congenital Impairments, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
A Comparison of Picture Description Abilities in Individuals with Vascular Subcortical Lesions and Huntington's Disease
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Jensen, Angela M.; Chenery, Helen J.; Copland, David A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2006
The lexical-semantic and syntactic abilities of a group of individuals with chronic nonthalamic subcortical (NS) lesions following stroke (n=6) were investigated using the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) picture description task [Kertesz, A. (1982). "The Western aphasia battery." New York: Grune and Stratton] and compared with those of a…
Descriptors: Diseases, Aphasia, Semantics, Syntax
Academic Outcomes in Children with Histories of Speech Sound Disorders.
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Lewis, Barbara A.; Freebairn, Lisa A.; Taylor, H. Gerry – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
Tests of phonology, semantics, and syntax were administered to 52 preschool children (ages 4-6) with speech sound disorders. Language impairment at school-age (ages 8-11) related to poor performance on preschool tests of syntax and nonsense word repetition, while reading impairment was predicted by poor performance in all preschool test domains.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Impairments, Phonology, Predictor Variables