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Schwartz, Richard G. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Investigates language-normal one-year-olds' (N=14) and language-impaired two- and three-year-olds' (N=10) acquisition of words referring to three types of action. Findings revealed that, although both groups produced few of the words, the language-normal subjects comprehended the different types of action, whereas the impaired subjects did not.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps

Leonard, Laurence B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1981
Presents a critical review of studies designed to teach language production skills to children with specific language impairment. The evidence reviewed suggests that a number of training approaches are effective, often resulting in gains that exceed the rate seen in normal development, provided the speaking situation resembles enough the training…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Disabilities, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps

Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1981
Comprehension and strategy use of 18 autistic children was compared with that of normal 3- and 4-year olds. Subjects were asked to act out certain syntactic and semantic patterns in two experiments. Autistic children performed below the levels of the normal subjects, suggesting that autism is a semantic/cognitive deficit. (PJM)
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Comprehension, Language Handicaps

Fujiki, Martin; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
A study examined the manner in which 10 specifically language-impaired children and their linguistically normal chronological age-matched peers repaired overlapping speech. Conversational samples from each student were elicited by an adult examiner. (26 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Handicaps, Language Patterns

Rescorla, Leslie; Schwartz, Ellen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Describes a follow-up study of 25 boys who had been diagnosed with Specific Expressive Language Delay (SELD) at 24 to 30 months of age. At three to four years, half of the boys continued to exhibit poor expressive language skills, suggesting that young children diagnosed with SELD are at considerable risk for continuing language problems. (33…
Descriptors: Child Language, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps

Leonard, Laurence B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Attempts to demonstrate that specifically language-impaired (SLI) children can be viewed as normal learners faced with systematically altered input. By assuming SLI children are limited in their ability to perceive and hypothesize grammatical morphemes that are low in phonetic substance, many features of SLI children's language can be explained by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition

Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
Examines the communicative functions served by the lexical usage of normal and language impaired children whose speech was limited to single word utterances. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition

Lindner, Katrin; Johnston, Judith R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Fourteen matched pairs of German-speaking and English-speaking children were tested for their knowledge of grammatical morphology and expressive vocabulary. The finding that the German-speaking children earned higher scores than did the English-speaking children adds to the literature that documents language-specific sensitivity to particular…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, English, Foreign Countries

Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Analysis of the spontaneous speech of English- and Italian-speaking children with specific language impairment indicated that word-final consonants adversely influenced Italian subjects' tendency to use articles. There was no evidence of syntactic differences between the language groups. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis, Consonants

Gibson, Deborah; Ingram, David – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1983
Examined oset and acquisition of language comprehension and production in a language delayed child through analysis of a daily diary. In addition to confirming that the gap between comprehension and production was greater than that found in normal children, data from these observations can also be used to add to a general understanding of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis

Schwartz, Richard G.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Comparison of language-impaired two- to three-year-olds (N=10) and normal one-year-olds (N=15) matched for expressive language revealed that the language-impaired subjects acquired a greater number of object concepts presented in a no-action condition than the normal children, although language-impaired subjects' extensions of the names to new…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Context Clues