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Sterling, Audra M.; Rice, Mabel L.; Warren, Steven F. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: The current study investigated finiteness marking (e.g., he walk "s", he walk "ed") in boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS); the boys were grouped based on receptive vocabulary (i.e., borderline, impaired). Method: Twenty-one boys with the full mutation of fragile X, between the ages of 8 and 16 years participated. The…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Mental Retardation, Congenital Impairments, Males
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Rice, Mabel L.; Smolik, Filip; Perpich, Denise; Thompson, Travis; Rytting, Nathan; Blossom, Megan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: The mean length of children's utterances is a valuable estimate of their early language acquisition. The available normative data lack documentation of language and nonverbal intelligence levels of the samples. This study reports age-referenced mean length of utterance (MLU) data from children with specific language impairment (SLI) and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intelligence, Intervals, Morphemes
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Paradis, Johanne; Rice, Mabel L.; Crago, Martha; Marquis, Janet – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
This study reports on a comparison of the use and knowledge of tense-marking morphemes in English by first language (L1), second language (L2), and specific language impairment (SLI) children. The objective of our research was to ascertain whether the L2 children's tense acquisition patterns were similar or dissimilar to those of the L1 and SLI…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Language Impairments