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Tense and Aspect in Childhood Language Impairment: Contributions from Hungarian
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Lukacs, Agnes; Kas, Bence – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
Previous studies of children with language impairment (LI) reveal an insensitivity to aspect that may constitute part of the children's deficit. In this study, we examine aspect as well as tense in Hungarian-speaking children with LI. Twenty-one children with LI, 21 TD children matched for age, and 21 TD children matched for receptive vocabulary…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Hungarian, Morphemes
The Development of Aspectual Marking in Child Mandarin Chinese
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Chen, Jidong; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Cross-linguistic research on the development of tense-aspect marking has revealed a strong effect of lexical aspect. But the degree of this effect varies across languages. Explanation for this universal tendency and language-specific variation is still an open issue. This study investigates the early emergence and subsequent development of four…
Descriptors: Language Research, Semantics, Verbs, Morphemes
Sound Change: A Phonemic Split in a Misarticulating Child.
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Gierut, Judith A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Reports a method of clinically inducing a phonemic split in a misarticulating child. Three stages were observed in the acquisition of this split: (1) complementary distribution (allophones of the same phoneme); (2) position-specific free variation (intermediate to the phonemic split); and (3) phonemic distribution for some morphemes (phonemic…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Language Learnability and Specific Language Impairment in Children.
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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
Some Influences on the Grammar of English- and Italian-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment.
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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
Phonology and Grammatical Morphology in Specific Language Impairment: Accounting for Individual Variation in English and Italian.
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Bortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
The purpose of this study was to determine whether individual differences observed in the grammatical morphology of children with specific language impairment (SLI) could be traced to another source, such as the use of weak syllables. Results show that imitations in prosody may restrict the degree of grammatical morpheme use by children with SLI.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, Individual Differences