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Abel, Alyson D.; Rice, Mabel L.; Bontempo, Daniel E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have known deficits in the verb lexicon and finiteness marking. This study investigated a potential relationship between these 2 variables in children with SLI and 2 control groups considering predictions from 2 different theoretical perspectives, morphosyntactic versus morphophonological.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Verbs, Correlation, Comparative Analysis
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Rice, Mabel L.; Wexler, Kenneth; Marquis, Janet; Hershberger, Scott – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2000
This study explored the acquisition of regular and irregular past tense in 21 children with specific language impairment. The findings support a morphosyntactic rather than morphophonological learning model, such as the extended optional infinitive model, with regard to the limitations in finiteness marking and for affected children. (Contains…
Descriptors: Children, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Learning Processes
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Cleave, 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)