What compound words mean to children with specific language impairment

Karla K. McGregor; Gwyneth C. Rost; Ling Yu Guo; Li Sheng

doi:10.1017/S014271641000007X

What compound words mean to children with specific language impairment

Karla K. McGregor, Gwyneth C. Rost, Ling Yu Guo, Li Sheng

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Sixteen children (17 age mates, 17 vocabulary mates) with specific language impairment (SLI) participated in two studies. In the first, they named fantasy objects. All groups coined novel noun-noun compounds on a majority of trials but only the SLI group had difficulty ordering the nouns as dictated by semantic context. In the second study, the children described the meaning of conventional noun-noun compounds. The SLI and AM groups did not differ in parsing the nouns, but the SLI group was poorer at explaining the semantic relationships between them. Compared to vocabulary mates, a larger proportion of the SLI group successfully parsed the compounds but a smaller proportion could explain them. These difficulties may reflect problems in the development of links within the semantic lexicon.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	463-487
Number of pages	25
Journal	Applied Psycholinguistics
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S014271641000007X
Publication status	Published - Jul 2010
Externally published	Yes

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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
General Psychology

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