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Skarakis, Elisabeth. 1982. The role of new and old information in the verbal expression of language disordered children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 25 : 462–467.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language deficiency | given vs. new information | one-word stage

Annotation

An experimental study on language-disordered children beyond the one-word stage, showing that they selectively mark new information in verbal communication, just as normal children do. Furthermore, they manifest the same developmental sequence of strategies for deemphasizing old information.