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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol.46 43-55 February 2003. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2003/004)
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Surface Forms and Grammatical Functions

Past Tense and Passive Participle Use by Children With Specific Language Impairment

Laurence B. Leonard 1
Patricia Deevy 1
Carol A. Miller 2
Leila Rauf 1
Monique Charest 1

Robert Kurtz 1
1 Purdue University West Lafayette, IN
2 Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA

xdxl{at}purdue.edu

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) use past tense -ed in fewer obligatory contexts than younger normally developing children matched for mean length of utterance (MLU). In this study, the use of passive participle -ed (e.g., kissed in The frog got kissed by the kitty) as well as past tense -ed was examined in children with SLI, normally developing children matched for age (ND-A), and normally developing children matched for MLU (ND-MLU). The children with SLI used both past tense -ed and passive participle -ed in fewer obligatory contexts than both the ND-A and the ND-MLU children. Only the children with SLI had greater difficulty with past tense -ed than with passive participle -ed. The pattern of findings indicates that the surface properties of -ed cannot adequately account for the past tense -ed difficulty shown by the children with SLI. However, the fact that the children with SLI were less consistent than the ND-MLU children in using passive participle -ed suggests that either the surface properties of -ed are responsible for a portion of the difficulty or these children have a separate, non-tenserelated deficit in the area of verb morphology.

KEY WORDS: specific language impairment, grammatical morphology, grammar, past tense, participle

Submitted on February 1, 2002
Accepted on July 29, 2002




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