Patterns of Naming Objects and Actions in Cypriot Greek Children with SLI and WFDs

Maria Kambanaros, Kleanthes K. Grohmann

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This paper reports on the first picture-naming study involving children with specific language impairment that investigates the lexical category of verbs and compares performances with noun retrieval for the same children. Apart from a control group consisting of typically developing children, another impaired or delayed population was included: children with word-finding difficulties. All children tested are monolingual speakers of Cypriot Greek, and comparisons with Standard Modern Greek are presented.


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acquisition, GOAT, lexical access, nouns, specific language impairment, verbs, word-finding difficulties

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26262/istal.v19i0.5501

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