Naslov
Early lexical and morphosyntactic development in children with perinatal brain injury acquiring Croatian

Autori
Cepanec, Maja ; Ljubešić, Marta

Izvornik
Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders (1476-9670) 4 (2006), 2; 128-148

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Perinatal brain injury; Croatian; morphosyntax; lexical development

Sažetak
The aim of this paper is to analyse early lexical and morphosyntactic development in children with early brain injury acquiring Croatian. Subjects were seven monolingual children who suffered perinatal brain injury and were selected when they started producing first words combinations and had an expressive vocabulary in a range from 50 to 200 words. The combination of parent-reports, samples of spontaneous speech and standard language test was used. The results were interpreted within the framework of data on language development in children with early brain injury, but also within the framework of acquiring a morphologically highly inflected language. Four of seven subjects show delayed language expression and dissociation between language comprehension and expression. However, all subjects very early on began to use grammatical morphemes. Furthermore, the interrelation between the child`s utterances morphosyntactic compexity and mother-child interaction patterns was found.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti, Pedagogija

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