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Peer reviewedLeonard, Laurence B.; McGregor, Karla K. – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Describes an unusual phonological pattern exhibited by a child aged two years that involves the production of word-final strident continuants in words whose adult forms contain these features in initial, rather than final, position (e.g., ops for soap). (13 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Consonants, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedIhns, Mary; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Examination of a two-year-old's early determiner-noun combinations suggested that early article use can be distributed across a variety of nouns, and that such usage does not seem appropriately characterized as a pattern of limited semantic scope. (CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Determiners (Languages), Infants, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedBortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B.; Caselli, Maria Cristina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Children with specific language impairments (eight learning Italian, eight learning English as a first language) were studied for grammatical deficits. Italian-speakers used noun inflections, verb inflections, copula forms more than English-speaking counterparts, matched by utterance length. Articles were used similarly. Results were consistent…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
