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Leonard, Laurence B.; Haebig, Eileen; Deevy, Patricia; Brown, Barbara – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: In this reply, we respond to comments on our article "Tracking the Growth of Tense and Agreement in Children With Specific Language Impairment: Differences Between Measures of Accuracy, Diversity, and Productivity." Conclusion: The finite verb morphology composite can be disproportionately affected by frequently occurring…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Children, Language Impairments, Verbs
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Haebig, Eileen; Deevy, Patricia; Brown, Barbara – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Composite measures of children's use of tense and agreement morphology differ in their emphasis on accuracy, diversity, or productivity, yet little is known about how these different measures change over time. An understanding of these differences is especially important for the study of children with specific language impairment, given…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Language Impairments, Morphology (Languages)
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Purdy, J. D.; Leonard, Laurence B.; Weber-Fox, Christine; Kaganovich, Natalya – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: One possible source of tense and agreement limitations in children with specific language impairment (SLI) is a weakness in appreciating structural dependencies that occur in many sentences in the input. This possibility was tested in the present study. Method: Children with a history of SLI (H-SLI; n = 12; M = 9;7 [years;months]) and…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Morphemes, Sentences, Verbs