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Peer reviewedPlante, Elena; Gomez, Rebecca; Gerken, LouAnn – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
Sixteen adults with language/learning disabilities (L/LD) and 16 controls participated in a study testing sensitivity to word order cues that signaled grammatical versus ungrammatical word strings belonging to an artificial grammar. Participants with L/LD performed significantly below the comparison group, suggesting that this skill is problematic…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Disorders, Cues, Grammar
Peer reviewedCarter, Allyson K.; Gerken, LouAnn – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
Fourteen children (ages 4-6) with specific language impairment produced sentences containing reduced or unreduced disyllabic proper names. Acoustic analyses revealed a significantly longer duration for verb-onset to name-onset of sentences containing the reduced name, indicating that although segmental material is omitted, an acoustic trace…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
