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Peer reviewedSmith-Lock, Karen M. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1995
Seventeen children (ages 5-7) with specific language impairment (SLI) were compared to age-matched (AM) and language-matched (LM) groups on measures of metalinguistic skill. SLI children's performance was worse than AM peers and indistinguishable from younger LM children, suggesting that morphological awareness is more closely allied to oral…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Language Impairments, Linguistics
