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Otanes, Fe T., Ed.; Hale, Austin, Ed. – 1983
A collection of three papers written at a workshop on discourse grammar in Philippine languages is presented. The aims of the workshop were to (1) focus on discourse level grammar in the languages studied; (2) identify contrastive discourse types (genre) in the surface grammar; (3) identify the semantic constructions encoded by the different…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language, Foreign Countries
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McGregor, Karla K. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
Two children (ages four and five) with word-finding deficits characterized largely by semantic substitutions participated in a treatment involving phonological information about target words. Treatment resulted in reduction not only of occasional phonological word-finding substitutions but also of the large number of semantic word-finding…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Intervention, Language Impairments, Language Skills
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Edwards, Jan; Lahey, Margaret – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1999
This study compared picture-naming ability of 66 children (ages 4:3 to 9:7), half with expressive-only language deficits (SLI-exp) and half with receptive and expressive language (SLI-mix) deficits, with 66 children with no language impairment.Specific language impairment (SLI) children made more errors than controls and SLI-exp children made more…
Descriptors: Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Error Analysis (Language), Expressive Language
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Griffith, Penny L.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1990
Two linguistic microstructures (propositions and cohesive devices) were analyzed in story recalls by 11 primary and intermediate level hearing-impaired students. When stories were very simple, students generated mostly complete propositions, however as complexity increased, semantic errors resulted in fewer complete propositions. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Coherence, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
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Bain, Barbara A.; And Others – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
This article on sampling early semantic productions reports a study of 6 children (ages 31-35 months) with specific language impairments. Subjects produced a greater frequency and diversity of multiword utterances in a free-play sampling situation than in a joint action routine sampling situation. (JDD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
Cataldo, Donna; Arsenault, Joseph – 1987
A study examined the identification of distinct subgroups of learning-disabled young adults based on their ability to generate written language. Two subgroups of learning-disabled college students, the language strong/visually weak (N=22) and the visually strong/language weak (N=10), were identified based on evaluation of 32 essays. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Style, College Students, Expressive Language