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Peer reviewedMcGregor, Karla K.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their normally developing (ND) peers imitated proper nouns, the pronouns "he" and "you," and the article "the" in subject phrases. Both groups showed significantly more omissions of the function words than the proper nouns. A phonological explanation of subject article and pronoun omission is…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Function Words, Grammar, Language Impairments
Peer reviewedLeonard, Laurence B.; Miller, Carol; Gerber, Erika – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1999
Evaluation of the grammatical morphology used by 50 preschool children with specific language impairment as a function of their lexical diversity found their use of finite-verb morphology (based on number of different verbs used) and noun-related morphology lagged behind expectations in comparison to a group of normally developing preschoolers.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
