AN EXPLORATION OF SOME SEMANTIC PROCESSES IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DYSPHASIA

The net of meanings and some of the verbal reactions and operations are in focus within the article. The connection between cognitive and language development is also pointed out. Fifteen children with developmental dysphasia are examined. They are five years old. The exploration ranges the next operation: semantic differentiation between opposite and similar actions; understanding of verbs; understanding of adjectives; naming of pointed objects and generation of appropriate nouns. The main difficulties of children with developmental dysphasia refer to semantic differentiation especially to the words with similar or derived meanings. The conceptions of these children are too superficial. They know a large number of words, have many associations and show creative imagination but cannot use every time appropriate meanings within the concrete context.