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Journal of Speech and Hearing Research Vol.39 655-660 June 1996.
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SLI Subgroups

Interaction Between Discourse Constraints and Morphosyntactic Deficits

Julia L. Evans 1
1 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

A performance-based model was employed to investigate the impact of discourse demands on the pattern of morphosyntactic deficits exhibited by children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI). The pattern of grammatical errors varied with respect to discourse demands for children with good receptive language abilities but remained stable and independent of changes in discourse demands for children with both expressive and receptive deficits. These findings suggest distinct deficit profiles for subgroups of children with SLI differing in receptive language abilities that are not evident when syntactic skills are investigated outside the context of ongoing spontaneous discourse.

KEY WORDS: specific language impairments, SLI subgroups, language disorders in children, grammatical deficits, pragmatic deficits

Submitted on January 31, 1995
Accepted on December 6, 1995






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