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Conjunction, Comparatives and Quotatives in Kannada Speaking Children with Intellectual Disability

Ms. Manasa Preethika, Final Postgraduate Student and
Dr. Satish Kumaraswamy, Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing

Introduction

Language development is a complex and essential aspect of human cognition that significantly improves our communication and interaction with the outside world. There are certain populations, such as children with intellectual disability (CWID), who experience delays or impairments in language development. Intellectual disability is characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour, which impact many facets of daily life, including language skills.

However, there is a dearth of research in the Indian context that focuses on the language and communication aspects of CWID. Although speech-language pathology in India has demonstrated an awareness of changing theoretical perspectives and linguistic aspects in typically developing and language-disordered populations, there is a need to understand the language skills of children with intellectual disabilities (CWID) in order to provide appropriate assessment and intervention.

Conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, sentences, phrases, or clauses. A discourse connective is a conjunction joining sentences. This definition may overlap with that of other parts of speech, so what constitutes a "conjunction" must be defined for each language. http://grammar. yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/conjunctions/conjunctions.html

Silva and Marilyn (1987) investigated acquisition of conjunction in 26 adults and 71 children aged 4 to 11 were asked to tell a story about three sets of story pictures. The result showed that there is clear increase in the frequency of subordinate conjunctions with age, with subjects under 7 using only "when" and "because," conjunctions already present in the speech of toddlers.

Comparison is a mental act by which two or more items are examined in order to assess similarities and differences between them. The comparison can be made with regard to a certain gradable, one-dimensional property, and the items are then assigned a position on a predicative scale. This mental act of comparison finds its linguistic encoding in comparison constructions, especially comparative constructions for the expression of comparison of inequality or equative constructions for the expression of comparison of equality

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Ms. Manasa Preethika
Final Post Graduate Student (Corresponding Author)
Dr. M.V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
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Dr. Satish Kumaraswamy, Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing
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