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Direct linkWeiss, Amy L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2004
Pragmatics, the use of language in context, has been investigated only recently in the language used by children who stutter (CWS). Historically, researchers compared the length and complexity of the syntactic constructions produced by these children with those of children who do not stutter (CWNS) and generally found the CWS to be relatively…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Usage, Stuttering, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedRosenberg, Sheldon; Abbeduto, Leonard – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Samples of the communicative behavior of a group of mildly mentally retarded adults were examined for indications of mature linguistic competence (specifically, grammatical morpheme and complex sentence use).Findings confirmed the expectation that the eventual mastery of these aspects of linguistic competence in higher-level retarded individuals…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis
