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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol.41 1363-1374 December 1998.
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Grammatical Morphology and the Role of Weak Syllables in the Speech of Italian-Speaking Children With Specific Language Impairment

Laurence B. Leonard 1
Umberta Bortolini 2
1 Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
2 Centro di Fonetica del CNR Padova, Italia

Italian-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) were compared to a group of younger control children in their use of auxiliary verbs, pronominal clitics, infinitives, present tense verb inflections, and articles. Differences favoring the control children were found for those morphemes that required the production of nonfinal weak syllables. On other grammatical morphemes, the two groups did not differ. A relationship was seen between the use of morphemes requiring nonfinal weak syllables and the use of nonfinal weak syllables that had no morpheme status. The findings are considered from the perspective of both prosodic production limitations and limitations in input processing.

KEY WORDS: specific language impairment, Italian, prosody, grammatical morphology, phonology

Submitted on November 3, 1997
Accepted on March 31, 1998




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