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Peer reviewedLeonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1982
Although both 14 language impaired and 14 normal young children showed greater comprehension and production of words referring to objects than to actions, this tendency was not as marked for the language impaired Ss. (CL)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Semantics
Peer reviewedLeonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
The study found that 8 language-impaired 3-year-old children were less likely than 10 normally developing children to apply unusual sound changes to words with the potential for homonymy, suggesting they are limited in their ability to capitalize on the phonetic regularities of language. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Phonetics, Phonology
Peer reviewedLeonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
Examines the communicative functions served by the lexical usage of normal and language impaired children whose speech was limited to single word utterances. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition
