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Grammatical Morpheme Acquisition in 4-Year-Olds with Normal, Impaired, and Late-Developing Language.

Paul, Rhea; Alforde, Sally – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Production of grammatical morphemes was examined in free speech samples from 34 4-year-olds with history of slow expressive language development (SELD) and control group. Both the SELD children who had caught up in mean length of utterance by age four and those who had not had acquired fewer grammatical morphemes than controls, though acquisition…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Developmental Stages, Expressive Language, Grammar

Camarata, Stephen M.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
This study compared the relative effectiveness of imitative intervention and conversational recast language intervention applied to grammatical morpheme and complex sentences in 21 children with specific language impairment. The conversational procedure was found to require fewer presentations to first spontaneous use and to produce more…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Generalization, Grammar