The syntactic and semantic features of two-year-olds' verb vocabularies: a comparison of typically developing children and late talkers.

ABSTRACT: Children with language disorders have particular difficulty with verbs, but when this difficulty emerges is unknown. We examined syntactic (transitive, intransitive, ditransitive) and semantic (manner, result) features of two-year-olds' verb vocabularies, contrasting late talkers and typically developing children to look for early differences in verb vocabulary. We conducted a retrospective analysis of parent-reported expressive vocabulary from the Language Development Survey (N = 564, N(LT) = 62) (Rescorla, 1989). Verbs were coded for the presence or absence of each syntactic and semantic feature. Binomial mixed-effects regressions revealed the effect of feature on children's knowledge and whether feature interacted with group classification. Our results revealed mostly similarities betwe

SUBMITTER: Horvath S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6436978 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature