shahla Raghibdust; elahetaheri Ghaleno
Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, , Pages 51-67
Abstract
Studies on child language acquisition show that in the lexical development process, generic concept has a significant function, as it has a determining role in the formation of skills such as extension and categorization of concepts. The present research aims to investigate the production and comprehension ...
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Studies on child language acquisition show that in the lexical development process, generic concept has a significant function, as it has a determining role in the formation of skills such as extension and categorization of concepts. The present research aims to investigate the production and comprehension abilities of generic nouns, as well as the developmental patterns in two age groups (4-5 and 5-6 years)of 16 monolingual Persian-speaking children. To achieve this goal, we used two experiments, a morphological experiment (adopted fromCimpian&Markman, 2008) involving different linguistic contexts (with generic, non-generic and neutral concepts), and a syntactic experiment (adopted from Cimpian, Meltzer &Markman, 2011). Analysis of the data indicated that children as young as 4 were capable of using morphosyntactic and contextual cues to construe the concept of “kind” in the form of generic noun, and distinguish between generic and non-generic sentences. The comparison of the children’s performance in the two age groups demonstrated that they did not have any significant difference in processing generic noun phrases. The findings also confirmed that in addition to employing morphosyntactic cues, the subjects also used linguistic context to differentiate generic from non-generic nouns.
Shahla Raghibdoust; Mousa Ghonchepour
Volume 2, Issue 3 , October 2010
Abstract
This research has studied the language disorders of Persian-speaking aphasic patients to evaluate their comprehension abilities of simple and compound nouns, and to specify the categories having the largest number of vulnerabilities. The subjects were 3 monolingual patients (2 Broca’s and 1 transcortical ...
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This research has studied the language disorders of Persian-speaking aphasic patients to evaluate their comprehension abilities of simple and compound nouns, and to specify the categories having the largest number of vulnerabilities. The subjects were 3 monolingual patients (2 Broca’s and 1 transcortical motor aphasics) referring to speech therapy clinics of Shafa Hospital and Welfare Rehabilitation Center in Kerman city. Three normal control individuals matched in terms of gender, age, education, place of residence, native language and handedness also participated in the study. Research instruments were spoken word picture matching and associative word picture matching tests. The stimuli were 32 simple and 32 root and synthetic compound nouns. The results indicated that Broca and Motor Transcortical aphasic patients did not show a significant difference in comprehension of root and synthetic compound nouns (p= 0/179), while there was a statistically significant difference between the comprehension of simple and compound nouns (p