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Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia; Miller, Carol A.; Rauf, Leila; Charest, Monique; Kurtz, Robert – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003
This study examined difficulties in the use of -ed as passive participle or as past tense in 12 young children with specific language impairment. Results suggest that either the surface properties of -ed are related to the difficulty or these children have a separate, non-tense- related deficit in the area of verb morphology. (Contains…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Morphology (Languages), Preschool Children