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KMID : 1022420140060030013
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2014 Volume.6 No. 3 p.13 ~ p.21
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Sentence interpretation strategies by typically developing and late-talking Korean toddlers
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Jo Su-Jung
Hwang Min-A
Choi Kyung-Soon
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Abstract
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Late talkers are young children who are delayed in their expressive language skills despite normal nonverbal cognitiveability, adequate hearing and typical personality development. The purpose of this study is to investigate the sentenceinterpretation strategies used by Korean-speaking late talkers and age-matched normal children. Nine late talkers and ninenormal children matched by age at 30-35months were participated in this study. 27 simple noun-noun-verb(NNV) sentenceswere generated by factorial combination of case-marker [nominal case-marker on the first noun and accusative on the second(C1), accusative on the first noun and nominative on the second (C2), and no case markers on both nouns (C0)], andanimacy of the nouns [animate-inanimate(AI), inanimate-animate(IA), animate-animate(AA)]. All the children were asked to“act out” their interpretation of the given sentence. For each type of sentences the percentage of choices of the first noun asthe agent was calculated. The results of group (2) ? animacy(3) ? case-marker(3) mixed ANOVA showed a significantmain effect for 'animacy', 'case marker' and 'group(2) ? case-marker (3)'. The late talkers relied on semantic (animacy) cuesin their interpretation of the sentences, while the normal peers utilized both animacy and grammatical morpheme(case-marker) cues. The results indicated that the late-talkers’ comprehension skills were also delayed.
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KEYWORD
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late talker, sentence interpretation strategy, act-out task
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