Error analysis

• The children gave different responses in the naming task. These were classified as
irrelevant, or provision of a phonological error, mention of functional properties or
use of a basic level, a superordinate level word, the accurate production of the target
word.

• From the responses given (except from the “don ^,t know" responses), successful
performance was significantly the most frequent for both post tests. Use of a “basic
leveΓ word was also the more frequent error after the “don ^,t know"¹ responses for
both post tests. The same pattern was evident within each age group and each
linguistic condition.

Concluding remarks for the naming task

► The analysis of the naming task demonstrated that the older age-group children
performed better than the younger ones. The same pattern was found within the
Inference, Lexical contrast and Definition condition. Moreover, differences by
linguistic condition were also found in children’s performance on the naming task.
There was a trend for the children from the Inference group to perform better than the
other children from the other groups during the immediate post test. Additionally,
there was a trend for the children in the Lexical contrast condition to perform better
than the children in the other conditions during the delayed post test. Children
performed better during the immediate than the delayed post test. Last, a trend was
found for the children with high existing vocabulary to perform better than children
with low existing vocabulary. Also, the children with high phonological memory
performed better than children with low phonological memory.

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