JSLHR
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol.40 741-753 August 1997.
© American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow My Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Leonard, L. B.
Right arrow Articles by Grela, B. G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Leonard, L. B.
Right arrow Articles by Grela, B. G.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Facebook   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Three Accounts of the Grammatical Morpheme Difficulties of English-Speaking Children With Specific Language Impairment

Laurence B. Leonard 1
Julia A. Eyer 2
Lisa M. Bedore 1

Bernard G. Grela 1
1 Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
2 University of Texas, El Paso

Several hypotheses have been offered to explain the grammatical morpheme difficulties observed in the speech of children with specific language impairment. Three of the accounts that could be evaluated in English were the focus of this study: the extended optional infinitive account, the implicit rule deficit account, and the surface account. Preschoolers with specific language impairment, a group of age controls, and a group of younger children matched for mean length of utterance were evaluated in their use of several theory-relevant grammatical morphemes. The findings revealed advantages for both the surface and extended optional infinitive hypotheses. In contrast, a test of the predictions based on the implicit rule deficit account suggested that the children studied here were not experiencing a deficit of this type.

KEY WORDS: specific language impairment, grammatical morphology, language disorders

Submitted on June 14, 1996
Accepted on January 8, 1997


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Facebook Facebook   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 AJSLPHome page
L. H. Finestack and M. E. Fey
Evaluation of a Deductive Procedure to Teach Grammatical Inflections to Children With Language Impairment
Am J Speech Lang Pathol, August 1, 2009; 18(3): 289 - 302.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Communication Disorders QuarterlyHome page
S. Lee and B. K. Gorman
Production of Korean Case Particles in a Korean--English Bilingual Child With Specific Language Impairment: A Preliminary Study
Communication Disorders Quarterly, May 1, 2009; 30(3): 167 - 177.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
S. Pruitt and J. Oetting
Past Tense Marking by African American English-Speaking Children Reared in Poverty
J Speech Lang Hear Res, February 1, 2009; 52(1): 2 - 15.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
E. Thordardottir
Language-Specific Effects of Task Demands on the Manifestation of Specific Language Impairment: A Comparison of English and Icelandic
J Speech Lang Hear Res, August 1, 2008; 51(4): 922 - 937.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
F. Pizzioli and M.-A. Schelstraete
The Argument-Structure Complexity Effect in Children With Specific Language Impairment: Evidence From the Use of Grammatical Morphemes in French
J Speech Lang Hear Res, June 1, 2008; 51(3): 706 - 721.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Child Language Teaching and TherapyHome page
E. J. Polite and L. B. Leonard
A method for assessing the use of first person verb forms by preschool-aged children with SLI
Child Language Teaching and Therapy, October 1, 2007; 23(3): 353 - 366.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
K. Proctor-Williams and M. E. Fey
Recast Density and Acquisition of Novel Irregular Past Tense Verbs
J Speech Lang Hear Res, August 1, 2007; 50(4): 1029 - 1047.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
K. Corriveau, E. Pasquini, and U. Goswami
Basic Auditory Processing Skills and Specific Language Impairment: A New Look at an Old Hypothesis
J Speech Lang Hear Res, June 1, 2007; 50(3): 647 - 666.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
E. T. Thordardottir and M. Namazi
Specific Language Impairment in French-Speaking Children: Beyond Grammatical Morphology
J Speech Lang Hear Res, June 1, 2007; 50(3): 698 - 715.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
L. B. Leonard, P. Deevy, R. Kurtz, L. Krantz Chorev, A. Owen, E. Polite, D. Elam, and D. Finneran
Lexical Aspect and the Use of Verb Morphology by Children With Specific Language Impairment
J Speech Lang Hear Res, June 1, 2007; 50(3): 759 - 777.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
L. R. Krantz and L. B. Leonard
The Effect of Temporal Adverbials on Past Tense Production by Children With Specific Language Impairment
J Speech Lang Hear Res, February 1, 2007; 50(1): 137 - 148.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
V. F. Gutierrez-Clellen, M. A. Restrepo, and G. Simon-Cereijido
Evaluating the Discriminant Accuracy of a Grammatical Measure With Spanish-Speaking Children
J Speech Lang Hear Res, December 1, 2006; 49(6): 1209 - 1223.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
J. W. Montgomery and L. B. Leonard
Effects of Acoustic Manipulation on the Real-Time Inflectional Processing of Children With Specific Language Impairment
J Speech Lang Hear Res, December 1, 2006; 49(6): 1238 - 1256.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
L. B. Leonard, S. M. Camarata, M. Pawlowska, B. Brown, and M. N. Camarata
Tense and Agreement Morphemes in the Speech of Children With Specific Language Impairment During Intervention: Phase 2.
J Speech Lang Hear Res, August 1, 2006; 49(4): 749 - 770.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JSLHRHome page
A. J. Owen and L. B. Leonard
The production of finite and nonfinite complement clauses by children with specific language impairment and their typically developing peers.
J Speech Lang Hear Res, June 1, 2006; 49(3): 548 - 571.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USAHome page
J. C. Ziegler, C. Pech-Georgel, F. George, F.-X. Alario, and C. Lorenzi
Deficits in speech perception predict language learning impairment
PNAS, September 27, 2005; 102(39): 14110 - 14115.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Child Language Teaching and TherapyHome page
V. T Vigil, J. A Eyer, and W P. Hardee
Relevant responding in pragmatic language impairment: the role of language variation in the information-soliciting utterance
Child Language Teaching and Therapy, February 1, 2005; 21(1): 1 - 21.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 First LanguageHome page
S. Eisenberg
Production of infinitives by 5-year-old children with language-impairment on an elicitation task
First Language, October 1, 2004; 24(3): 305 - 321.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 First LanguageHome page
S. Eisenberg
Production of Infinitival Object Complements in the Conversational Speech of 5-Year-Old Children with Language-Impairment
First Language, October 1, 2003; 23(3): 327 - 341.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Topics in Early Childhood Special EducationHome page
S. F. Warren
The Future of Early Communication and Language Intervention
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, January 1, 2000; 20(1): 33 - 37.
[Abstract] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
All ASHA Journals AJA AJSLP JSLHR LSHSS
Copyright © 1997 by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.