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Morphological Deficits in Children with Specific Language Impairment: The Status of Features in the Underlying Grammar.
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Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Language Acquisition, 1992
This investigation examined the possibility that features necessary for morphology, such as person and number, are absent from the underlying grammars of specifically language-impaired children. (46 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, English, Grammar
Some Influences on the Grammar of English- and Italian-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment.
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Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Analysis of the spontaneous speech of English- and Italian-speaking children with specific language impairment indicated that word-final consonants adversely influenced Italian subjects' tendency to use articles. There was no evidence of syntactic differences between the language groups. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis, Consonants
Phonology and Grammatical Morphology in Specific Language Impairment: Accounting for Individual Variation in English and Italian.
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Bortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
The purpose of this study was to determine whether individual differences observed in the grammatical morphology of children with specific language impairment (SLI) could be traced to another source, such as the use of weak syllables. Results show that imitations in prosody may restrict the degree of grammatical morpheme use by children with SLI.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, Individual Differences
Specific Language Impairment in Italian and English: Evaluating Alternative Accounts of Grammatical Deficits.
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Bortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B.; Caselli, Maria Cristina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Children with specific language impairments (eight learning Italian, eight learning English as a first language) were studied for grammatical deficits. Italian-speakers used noun inflections, verb inflections, copula forms more than English-speaking counterparts, matched by utterance length. Articles were used similarly. Results were consistent…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis