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Peer reviewedOwen, Amanda J.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
Lexical diversity of 53 children with specific language impairment (SLI) (ages 3-7) was compared to 91 typical peers and younger children matched for mean length of utterance in words (MLUw). Older subgroups showed higher lexical diversity. At lower MLUw levels, children with SLI showed higher diversity than the younger children. (Contains…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Language Patterns
