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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

Curtiss, Susan; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
The order of acquisition of a set of linguistic structures and the relationship between structures were examined over 5 years in 28 language-impaired children (age 4) and 32 language-matched normal children. Results demonstrated a marked similarity between groups, suggesting that the linguistic impairments may be principally processing, not…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Delayed Speech
Blaubergs, Maija S. – 1977
That semantics interacts with syntax has been shown in psycholinguistic investigations of the processing of language by adults and of the acquisition of language by children. The few programs for language assessment and therapy that have attempted to incorporate semantic considerations have included some misunderstandings of the psycholinguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Diagnostic Tests, Grammar