Verb acquisition and its use in preschoolers with specific language impairment

• Grant number: 13/07032-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Débora Maria Befi-Lopes
• Grantee: Marianne Querido Verreschi
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FM). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show several linguistic impairments, between them difficulties with verbs might be remarkable (Windfuhr, Faragher, et al., 2002). Many researchers have been studying verb acquisition's implications for SLI children, once verbs play an important role as syntactic structure organizers and they are also essential to correct use of other word classes (Araujo, 2007). Therefore, aiming to study the functional use of verbs and nouns by children with SLI who speak Brazilian Portuguese, this project intends to quantify the relationship between nouns and verbs in Brazilian preschoolers with SLI, and also to classify the verbs produced by them, according to the proposal of Lima (1982). (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MARIANNE QUERIDO VERRESCHI; ANA MANHANI CÁCERES-ASSENÇO; DEBORA MARIA BEFI-LOPES. Uso de substantivos e verbos por pré-escolares com alteração específica de linguagem. CoDAS, v. 28, n. 4, p. 362-368, 2016-08-00. (13/07032-5)