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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
Peer reviewedJohnston, Trevor – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2001
Re-examination of data on noun-verb pair comprehension and production in Australian and American Sign Language confirm the existence of formationally related noun-verb pairs in Auslan in which the verb displays a single movement and the noun displays a repeated movement. Overall, the derivational process appears closely linked to an iconic base…
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Children, Cultural Differences
Cauley, Kathleen M.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1989
Noun and verb comprehension of 11 children with cerebral palsy or other motor impairments was assessed by presenting a linguistic stimulus and determining whether the child watched a video event that matched or did not match the stimulus. Subjects, aged 2-6, watched the match significantly more, especially when dynamic visual stimuli were…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Evaluation Methods, Language Skills, Language Tests
Aghbar, Ali A.; Tang, Huixing – 1991
A study was undertaken to develop a partial credit scheme for scoring cloze-type questions on an English collocation test, obtain construct validity evidence for the test and the scoring scheme using the Rasch Partial Credit Model, and compare partial credit scoring with the more commonly used dichotomous scoring with the same test instrument.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Download full textLyytinen, Paula – 1984
A study of the use of the complex Finnish morphological rule system in 45 children, aged 20-24 months, examined the children's inflection of nouns and verbs in speech characteristic of everyday Finnish. Analysis of the correct, unanswered, and incorrect test items found six classes of errors, which were then examined for clues to the underlying…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Expressive Language, Finnish
Peer reviewedWarren, Steven F. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1992
Five children (27 to 47 months old) with mild to borderline levels of mental retardation were given a milieu language intervention program of 3 or 4 small group training sessions weekly. Results indicated the training had a clear facilitative effect on the acquisition and generalized use of common nouns and verbs by four of the subjects.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Environment, Generalization, Incidental Learning
