Phonology and Grammatical Morphology in Specific Language Impairment: Accounting for Individual Variation in English and Italian.

Bortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B.

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ERIC Number: EJ526119

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Phonology and Grammatical Morphology in Specific Language Impairment: Accounting for Individual Variation in English and Italian.

Bortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B.

Applied Psycholinguistics, v17 n1 p85-104 Mar 1996

The purpose of this study was to determine whether individual differences observed in the grammatical morphology of children with specific language impairment (SLI) could be traced to another source, such as the use of weak syllables. Results show that imitations in prosody may restrict the degree of grammatical morpheme use by children with SLI. (34 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, Individual Differences, Italian, Language Impairments, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Oral Language, Phrase Structure, Preschool Children, Prose, Stress (Phonology), Syllables, Visual Stimuli

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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