Purpose: This study investigated whether past tense use could differentiate children with language impairment (LI) from their typically developing (TD) peers when English is children's second language (L2) and whether L2 children's past tense profiles followed the predictions of Bybee's (2007) usage-based network model. Method: A group of L2…

Examines the use of tense, agreement, and non-tense morphemes and associated distributional contingencies in the language production of Quebec French-Speaking children with specific language impairment and normally developing language and age-matched controls. Sought to determine whether the optimal infinitive/extended optional infinitive pattern…

Purpose: This study was conducted to examine whether the expressive language characteristics of typically developing (TD) children learning English as a second language (ESL) have similarities to the characteristics of the English that is spoken by monolingual children with specific language impairment (SLI), and whether this could result in the…