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Gladfelter, Allison; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: P. A. Hadley and H. Short (2005) developed a set of measures designed to assess the emerging diversity and productivity of tense and agreement (T/A) morpheme use by 2-year-olds. The authors extended 2 of these measures to the preschool years to evaluate their utility in distinguishing children with specific language impairment (SLI) from…
Descriptors: Grammar, Preschool Children, Morphemes, Speech Communication
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia; Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Stokes, Stephanie F.; Fletcher, Paul – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Surprizingly little is known about the use of modal auxiliaries by children with specific language impairment (SLI). These forms fall within the category of grammatical morphology, an area of morphosyntax that is purportedly very weak in children with SLI. Aims: Three studies were conducted to examine the use of modal auxiliaries by…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Intervention, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
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Miller, Carol A.; Deevy, Patricia – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
Primary objective: To determine if structural priming can be demonstrated in young children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Research design: A mixed-model design was used to compare children with SLI to two groups of typically developing (TD) children, and to compare priming conditions. Methods and procedures: Eighteen…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Preschool Children