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Pizzioli, Fabrizio; Schelstraete, Marie-Anne – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate consistent comprehension problems. The present study investigated whether these problems are driven primarily by structural complexity or length. A picture-sentence matching task was presented to 30 children: (1) 10 children with SLI, (2) 10 comprehension-matched children with typical…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition
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McDonald, Janet L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Native Spanish early and late acquirers of English and Vietnamese early and child acquirers of English made grammaticality judgments of sentences in their second language. Native acquirers of English were not distinguishable from native English speakers, whereas native Spanish late acquirers had difficulty with all aspects of the grammar tested…
Descriptors: Age, English (Second Language), Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability