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Direct linkHadley, Pamela A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This review article summarizes programmatic research on sentence diversity in toddlers developing language typically and explores developmental patterns of sentence diversity in toddlers at risk for specific language impairment. Method: The first half of this review article presents a sentence-focused approach to language assessment and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Toddlers, Language Impairments, Language Processing
Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew; Hsu, Ning – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2016
Purpose: The goals of this study were to quantify longitudinal expectations for verb lexicon growth and to determine whether verb lexicon measures were better predictors of later grammatical outcomes than noun lexicon measures. Method: Longitudinal parent-report measures from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (Fenson et al.,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Verbs, Vocabulary, Grammar
Hadley, Pamela A.; Walsh, Kathleen M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this initial feasibility study was to determine whether brief instruction in toy talk would change grammatical properties of adult language, specifically 3rd person lexical noun phrase (NP) subjects. Method: Eighteen college students participated in the study. The use of 3rd person subjects was examined before and after…
Descriptors: Toys, Grammar, Linguistic Input, Nouns
Hadley, Pamela A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2014
Purpose: In this response to Kamhi (2014), a sentence-focused framework is presented to help clinicians select treatment targets as part of a comprehensive approach to early grammatical intervention. Method: The literature on the relationship between lexical verbs, sentence structure, and tense/agreement morphemes is reviewed, and developmental…
Descriptors: Grammar, Early Intervention, Sentences, Verbs
Fitzgerald, Colleen E.; Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: Evidence for tense marking in child-directed speech varies both across languages (Guasti, 2002; Legate & Yang, 2007) and across speakers of a single language (Hadley, Rispoli, Fitzgerald, & Bahnsen, 2011). The purpose of this study was to understand how parent interaction styles and register use overlap with the tense-marking…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Morphemes, Grammar
Peer reviewedHadley, Pamela A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
Grammatical development was examined for 10 children (ages 19 to 31 months) with expressive language impairments only and 10 children with both receptive- and expressive-language impairments. Group analyses did not reveal any differences between the subtypes on the Index of Productive Syntax. However, specific weakness in verb-phrase elaboration…
Descriptors: Child Development, Expressive Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition
