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Peer reviewedLeonard, Laurence B.; Finneran, Denise – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003
This paper reports on two studies of finite verb use to determine whether children with specific language impairments, who use grammatical morphemes less than typical children matched for mean length of utterance (MLU), produce other language details more frequently. The paper concluded that offsetting effects are not necessary in principle, given…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Language Impairments, Morphemes
