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Title LANGUAGE PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION IN VERBALLY ABUSED AND NON-ABUSED CHILDREN: A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC COMPARISON

Author(s) TAYYABA ZAINAB

Abstract There are different types of child abuse, such as physical, emotional, psychological, and verbal. Verbal abuse is the type of child abuse that is considered as the least significant or minor abuse. However, in reality, it not only affects the behavioral development of children, but may also leave permanent impression on their cognitive processes of language comprehension and production. The current study aimed at finding out the differences in the language production and comprehension of verbally abused and non-verbally abused children. The study applied ‘an integrated theory of language production and comprehension’ by Pickering and Garrod (2013) as theoretical framework and collected quantitative and qualitative data with the help of three tests, viz. Conflict Tactic Scale by Straus (1996), Picture Description and Word Association Tests. The analysis of the data revealed that verbally abused children used abusive language more often as they were more inclined towards choosing negatively associated linguistic choices as compared to non-verbally abused children, who used abusive language less often and they were less inclined towards choosing negatively associated linguistic choices.

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Publication Date 2019-09-06

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