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Probing comprehension of WH questions in an echolalic child

John M. Panagos
South African Journal of Communication Disorders | Journal of the South African Speech and Hearing Association: Vol 22, No 1 | a392 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v22i1.392 | © 2019 John M. Panagos | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 15 November 2016 | Published: 31 December 1975

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John M. Panagos, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Kent State University, United States

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Comprehension of What, Where and When Wh questions was evaluated in a four-and-one-half year old echolalic boy who displayed in therapy and at home equivocal response to various question forms. Deficits of comprehension were traced to an inadequately developed deep structure (particularly adverbials) rather than to limited knowledge of Wh transformations. Delayed development of semantic rules, as in the case of time distinctions, may block acquisition of those syntactic rules dependent upon them.

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