NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Plural Acquisition in Children with Specific Language Impairment.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Oetting, Janna B.; Rice, Mabel L. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
A plural elicitation task and a nominal compounding task were administered to 18 children (age 5-6 years) with specific language impairment (SLI) and 2 control groups. SLI children's performance was affected by input frequency; three explanations within a model of linguistic normalcy are proposed to account for this frequency effect. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Models, Plurals
Nonmainstream Dialect Use and Specific Language Impairment.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Oetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2001
This study extended the study of specific language impairments (SLI) to two non-mainstream dialects: a rural version of Southern African American English and a rural version of Southern White English using language samples from 93 4- to 6-year-olds in Louisiana. Findings indicated the surface characteristics of SLI manifested in the two dialects…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Nonstandard Dialects
Morphological Deficits of Children with SLI: Evaluation of Number Marking and Agreement.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Rice, Mabel L.; Oetting, Janna B. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Grammatical deficits (e.g., missing feature, surface account, and missing agreement) reported for children with specific language impairment (SLI) were evaluated in spontaneous language transcripts from 108 preschool children. Results indicated that children with SLI do control number marking but find number agreement across clausal boundaries…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Expressive Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition