The research on metalinguistics in language-impaired children is reviewed indicating that deficits are not all-pervasive but focus on tasks that require sophisticated linguistic abilities or explicit judgments about language form. Such deficits may result from basic encoding problems of cognitive material. (DB)

The article looks at syntactic deficiencies involving simple clause structures and grammatical morphology in young children. A framework for understanding the development of simple clause structures is presented followed by a discussion of the correlates of early syntactic development. Procedures to assess and remediate syntactic deficiencies are…