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Arndt, Karen Barako; Schuele, C. Melanie – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the production of infinitival complements by children with specific language impairment (SLI) as compared with mean length of utterance (MLU)-matched children in an effort to clarify inconsistencies in the literature. Spontaneous language samples were analysed for infinitival complements (reduced…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Syntax, Language Acquisition
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Valian, Virginia – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines speech samples from six children aged 2 years to 2 years, 5 months, with Mean Lengths of Utterance ranging from 2.93 to 4.14, were examined for evidence of six syntactic categories: determiner, adjective, noun, noun phrase, preposition, and prepositional phrase. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Evaluation Criteria, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition