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Peer reviewedCleave, Patricia L.; Rice, Mabel L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
Production of the morpheme BE was studied among 22 children (ages 4-5) with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Contractible contexts were produced more accurately than uncontractible contexts by both groups, and there were no significant interactions between language status and contractibility. Copula forms were produced more…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Error Analysis (Language)
Peer reviewedRice, Mabel L.; Wexler, Kenneth; Hershberger, Scott – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
A longitudinal study of 43 typical children (ages 2 to 8) and 21 children with specific language impairments (SLI) found that a diverse set of morphemes share the property of tense marking, that acquisition shows linear and nonlinear components, and that mean length of utterance predicts rate of acquisition. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
