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Peer reviewedRice, Mabel L.; Wexler, Kenneth; Hershberger, Scott – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
A longitudinal study of 43 typical children (ages 2 to 8) and 21 children with specific language impairments (SLI) found that a diverse set of morphemes share the property of tense marking, that acquisition shows linear and nonlinear components, and that mean length of utterance predicts rate of acquisition. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
