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Weist, Richard M.; Pawlak, Aleksandra; Carapella, Jenell – Journal of Child Language, 2004
The purpose of this research was to show how the syntactic and semantic components of the tense-aspect system interact during the acquisition process. Our methodology involved: (1) identifying predicates, (2) finding the initial occurrence of their tense-aspect morphology, and (3) observing the emergence of contrasts. Six children learning Polish…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Verbs, Morphemes

Fletcher, Paul; Leonard, Laurence B.; Stokes, Stephanie F.; Wong, Anita M.-Y. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Previous studies of verb morphology in children with specific language impairment (SLI) have been limited in the main to tense and agreement morphemes. Cantonese, which, like other Chinese languages, has no grammatical tense, presents an opportunity to investigate potential difficulties for children with SLI in other areas of verb morphology, via…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Language Impairments, Sino Tibetan Languages
Bortolini, Umberta; Arfe, Barbara; Caselli, Cristina M.; Degasperi, Luisa; Deevy, Patricia; Leonard, Laurence B. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
Background: The discovery of clinical markers for specific language impairment (SLI) in children can assist in the accurate identification of children with this disorder, and in a description of the disorder's phenotype for genetic study. One challenge to this type of research is the fact that languages vary in the most salient symptoms of SLI.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Clinical Diagnosis, Italian, Speech Language Pathology