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Kapantzoglou, Maria; Fergadiotis, Gerasimos; Restrepo, M. Adelaida – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study examined whether the language sample elicitation technique (i.e., storytelling and story-retelling tasks with pictorial support) affects lexical diversity (D), grammaticality (grammatical errors per communication unit [GE/CU]), sentence length (mean length of utterance in words [MLUw]), and sentence complexity (subordination…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Language Impairments, Grammar
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Owen, Amanda J.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
The purpose of this study was to explore whether 13 children with specific language impairment (SLI; ages 5;1-8;0 [years;months]) were as proficient as typically developing age- and vocabulary-matched children in the production of finite and nonfinite complement clauses. Preschool children with SLI have marked difficulties with verb-related…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Skills, Morphology (Languages)