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Title: More general all-purpose verbs in children with specific language impairment? evidence from Greek for not fully lexical verbs in language development
Authors: Kambanaros, Maria 
Grohmann, Kleanthes K. 
Major Field of Science: Medical and Health Sciences
Field Category: Clinical Medicine
Keywords: SLI;Specific language impairment;Verbal performance
Issue Date: Mar-2014
Source: Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 1029-1057
Volume: 36
Issue: 5
Start page: 1029
End page: 1057
Journal: Applied Psycholinguistics 
Abstract: This paper addresses verbal performance and overuse of “not fully lexical verbs” by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and peers with typical language development (TLD). Experimental data come from picture-naming and retell narratives. Fourteen school-aged children with SLI (mean age = 6 years, 9 months) participated alongside 50 language- and age-matched peers with TLD. The results revealed that children with SLI do not use light verb constructions but only general all-purpose (GAP) verbs when unable to produce single-word, specific lexical verbs. Moreover, they do not differ from language-matched TLD children in this respect. As such, GAP verbs should be viewed as symptoms of immature language or absent representations rather than impaired language. Consequently, when discussing not fully lexical verbs productions in (a)typical development, researchers should make the fundamental distinction between GAP verbs and light verbs, and focus on GAP verbs as the relevant category in SLI.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/3693
ISSN: 14691817
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716414000034
Rights: © Cambridge University Press
Type: Article
Affiliation : Cyprus University of Technology 
University of Cyprus 
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