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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2011 Mar 31;25(9):767–783. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2011.565542

Table VII.

Examples of syntactic and semantic errors committed in retelling the story by children with SLI.

graphic file with name nihms603429t1.jpg Omission of determinant: ‘està fent carrera amb(el/un)tren’[he’s racing with (the/a) train]
graphic file with name nihms603429t2.jpg Omission of preposition: ‘iva passar(per)un túnel’. [and he went (through) a tunnel]
graphic file with name nihms603429t3.jpg Semantic substitution: ‘ese“talaycia”(policia) y para atren’[that‘taliceman’ (policeman) and stop the train] (substitution of bus by train).