Word recognition in Developmental Language Disorders in Greek
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0046/000588Keywords:
Developmental Language Disorder, eye-tracking, word recognitionAbstract
To date, characteristics of online visual perception in Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) remain relatively underexplored. This study aimed to investigate the dynamic recognition of spoken words for nouns and verbs in Greek-speaking children with DLD. Nine children with DLD participated in this pilot study, during which their eye movements were recorded while they searched among an array of pictures for a target image in response to hearing a single spoken word. The results showed that children with DLD demonstrated stronger recognition performance for verbs than for nouns. In addition, the greater the amount of available word information, the faster the recognition process.
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