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Abstract:
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of vocabulary use of seven - to nine -year -old bilingual children with and without language impairment . 74 participants (37 typically developing and 37 language impaired ) ranging from age 7 ;0 to 9 ;11 years were matched based on age , language dominance and when they first began speaking English . The Test of Narrative Language (TNL ) was administered to the participants in English and Spanish . The three oral narratives of the English and Spanish TNL were transcribed and scored . A prototypical word list was derived from 10 high scoring students from the normative data set . Word lists from both the TD and LI participants in English and Spanish were compared to the prototypical word list . Results indicated that the participants produced more prototypical words when telling stories in English than in Spanish . TD participants also produced more prototypical words than LI participants overall . The results have implications for both assessment and intervention and add to our knowledge of word selection in bilingual children with and without LI . |