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Semantic acquisition in language impaired and normal speaking four year old children
South African Journal of Communication Disorders | Journal of the South African Speech and Hearing Association: Vol 22, No 1 | a391 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v22i1.391
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Submitted: 15 November 2016 | Published: 31 December 1975
Submitted: 15 November 2016 | Published: 31 December 1975
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Marlene Green, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaFull Text:
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For the purpose of assessing a semantic feature theory of semantic acquisition in language impaired and normal pre-schoolers, semantic feature manipulation tests were administered to two language-impaired and two matched normal speaking four-year olds. Results support Clark's hypothesis that lexical acquisition proceeds from over-extended quasi-superordinate terms with few semantic features to more differentiated subordinate terms with a greater number of features. Language impaired and normal children did not seem to be differentiated on these results.
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