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Moyle, Maura Jones; Karasinski, Courtney; Weismer, Susan Ellis; Gorman, Brenda K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test Bedore and Leonard's (1998) proposal that a verb morpheme composite may hold promise as a clinical marker for specific language impairment (SLI) in English speakers and serve as an accurate basis for the classification of children with and without SLI beyond the preschool level. Method: The language…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Children, English
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Polite, Elgustus J.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) often have extraordinary difficulty in the use of tense and agreement morphemes. Because spontaneous speech samples may not provide a sufficient number of obligatory contexts for these morphemes, structured probe items are often employed. However, these usually emphasize actions that can be readily…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments