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Morphosyntax in children with word finding difficulties.

Victoria A Murphy¹, Julie Dockrell, David Messer

¹Department of Education, University of Oxford, Norham Gardens, Oxford. victoria.murphy@education.ox.ac.uk

Journal of Child Language

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Children with word finding difficulties (CwWFDs) show similar abilities to typically developing children in producing complex word forms. This suggests their challenges lie elsewhere, not in morphosyntax.

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Area of Science:

Linguistics
Developmental Psychology
Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

Children with word finding difficulties (CwWFDs) exhibit deficits in naming simple words.
Their performance with morphologically complex words, like inflected forms, remains under-investigated.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if CwWFDs' ability to produce inflected words matches that of typically developing children.
To assess the applicability of the dual-mechanism model to CwWFDs' morphological processing.

Main Methods:

Compared inflectional knowledge of CwWFDs with language-matched typically developing peers.
Conducted three experiments involving past tense production of regular and irregular verbs, novel verbs, and verbs in different contexts.

Main Results:

CwWFDs performed similarly to typical children in producing past tenses across all three experiments.
No selective deficit in morphosyntactic features was observed in CwWFDs.

Conclusions:

CwWFDs do not appear to have a specific impairment in processing morphosyntactic features of words.
Findings offer partial support for the dual-mechanism model of word production.