Morphological Productivity in Children with Normal Language and SLI: A Study of the English Past Tense.

Marchman, Virginia A.; Wulfeck, Beverly; Weismer, Susan Ellis

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ERIC Number: EJ583748

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Morphological Productivity in Children with Normal Language and SLI: A Study of the English Past Tense.

Marchman, Virginia A.; Wulfeck, Beverly; Weismer, Susan Ellis

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v42 n1 p206-19 Feb 1999

Comparison of English past-tense productivity in 31 school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 31 children with no language (NL) impairment found SLI children made more errors, with a greater proportion resulting from overuse of unmarked grammatical forms (e.g., "go") than from suffixation (e.g., "goed"). Children with SLI were more sensitive to item phonology than were NL peers. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Suffixes, Tenses (Grammar)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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