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Semantic Relations in Typical Hindi Speaking Children

Author(s) Mr. Ameesh Prakash, Dr. Satish Kumaraswamy
Country India
Abstract Language development during early childhood plays an important role in communication, cognition and social interaction. Semantic relations reflect the meaningful connections children express through language and provide information about the development of semantic organization and expressive language abilities. The present study investigated the use of semantic relations in typical Hindi-speaking children aged 4–5.11 years across conversation, monologue, and story narration tasks. A minimum of 100 total utterances per child was collected across conversation, monologue, and story narration tasks. The speech samples were audio-recorded and later transcribed for semantic analysis. and analyzed for 13 semantic relations, including temporal, possessive, agent + object, agent + action, locative, existence, conjunctive, denial, descriptive, non-existence, quantitative, recurrence, and rejection relations. Repeated-measures ANOVA was used for statistical analysis. The findings revealed that communicative context significantly influenced the use of most semantic relations. Story narration generally elicited higher scores for complex semantic relations such as agent + action, descriptive, locative, quantitative, conjunctive, and rejection relations, whereas possessive and existence relations were used more frequently during conversation tasks. Temporal relations did not show significant differences across tasks. Overall, the findings suggest that storytelling tasks encourage greater semantic complexity and richer expressive language in preschool children. The study highlights the importance of assessing children across multiple speaking contexts to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of their language abilities.
Keywords semantic relations, language development, Hindi-speaking children, preschool children, semantics, story narration, expressive language
Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-05-27
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