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The Use of Stress by Language-Impaired Children.
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Hargrove, Patricia M.; Sheran, Christina P. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1989
The stressing patterns of five preschool language-impaired children were investigated. Analysis of two-word utterances in language samples found that three subjects tended to stress words based on their position in the utterance; one child stressed words based on informativeness; and one of the subjects' preferences was unclear. (JDD)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Language Patterns, Preschool Children
Sensitivity to Word Order Cues by Normal and Language/Learning Disabled Adults.
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Plante, Elena; Gomez, Rebecca; Gerken, LouAnn – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
Sixteen adults with language/learning disabilities (L/LD) and 16 controls participated in a study testing sensitivity to word order cues that signaled grammatical versus ungrammatical word strings belonging to an artificial grammar. Participants with L/LD performed significantly below the comparison group, suggesting that this skill is problematic…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Disorders, Cues, Grammar
Third Person Pronoun Errors by Children with and without Language Impairment.
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Moore, Mary Evelyn – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2001
A study found 36 children (ages 3-5) with specific language impairment (SLI) produced more errors with third person singular pronouns than did age-level peers, but did not make more errors than peers matched for mean length of utterance. Error patterns were similar in children with SLI and their language-level peers. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Error Analysis (Language), Individual Characteristics, Language Acquisition
Comparative Analysis of Parent-Child Interactions with Language-Disordered and Linguistically Normal Children.
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Schodorf, Jean Kurtis; Edwards, Harold T. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1983
The linguistic home environments of 10 language-delayed children and 10 linguistically normal children were compared using audiorecordings of parent-child dyads. Significant differences were found between the linguistic interactions of parents with a language-disordered child and parents with a linguistically normal child in all areas studied.…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Discourse Analysis, Family Influence, Interaction
Similarities in Weak Syllable Omissions between Children with Specific Language Impairment and Normally Developing Language: A Preliminary Report.
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Carter, Allyson K.; Gerken, LouAnn – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
Fourteen children (ages 4-6) with specific language impairment produced sentences containing reduced or unreduced disyllabic proper names. Acoustic analyses revealed a significantly longer duration for verb-onset to name-onset of sentences containing the reduced name, indicating that although segmental material is omitted, an acoustic trace…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
A Phonological Investigation of Four Siblings with Childhood Autism.
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Wolk, Lesley; Giesen, Janna – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
A phonological investigation of four siblings with autism found persistence of several phonological processes such as labilization, cluster reduction, or final consonant deletion beyond the expected age, evidence of unusual sound changes such as extensive segment coalescence, frication of liquids, and velarization, chronological mismatch, and…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Communication Disorders, Individual Characteristics