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- Title
Plural Markers, PNG Markers and Case Markers in Malayalam Speaking Children with Intellectual Disability.
- Authors
Gupta, Vini Abhijith; Subbarao, T. A.
- Abstract
Within the field of speech language pathology several attempts at studying language disorders are seen in the past 3 decades. Studies have shown that more than 80% of children with intellectual disability (ID) show language delays and requires professional intervention (Subba Rao and Srinivas, 1989; Bharat Raj, 1987; Prabhu, 1968 and others, as cited in Selvi, K., 1999). CWID showed delayed development of syntax. The LARSP procedure has been adapted successfully to describe the language of CWID in Kannada (Kumaraswamy, 2021; Subbarao, 1995). The present study followed a similar methodology and described language (in terms of syntax skills) of Malayalam speaking CWID. The objectives of the study were analyzing their expression data on plural markers, PNGF markers and Case markers. The description of Malayalam spoken syntactic structures was obtained from two sources, namely Grammar of Malayalam (Nair, 2012) and Malayalam - Descriptive Grammars (Asher, & Kumari, 1997). 60 CWID (4-6 years MA) were studied using natural conversational samples using toys, play materials, pictures. Except regular plural markers, other plural markers (e.g., Suffix/-ar and/-mar//) were not well developed in either group of CWID.
- Subjects
MALAYALAM language; ELEMENTARY education of children with intellectual disabilities; SYNTAX (Grammar); TEACHING methods; GRAMMAR
- Publication
Language in India, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 6, p52
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article