Grammatical Morphology Deficits in Spanish-Speaking Children With Specific Language Impairment

Relative to both same-age peers and younger typically developing children with similar mean lengths of utterance, 15 Spanish-speaking preschool children with specific language impairment showed more limited use of several different grammatical morphemes. These limitations were most marked for noun-r...

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Published in:Journal of speech, language, and hearing research language, and hearing research, 2001-08, Vol.44 (4), p.905-924
Main Authors: Bedore, Lisa M, Leonard, Laurence B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child clinical studies
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Control Groups
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general
Humans
Language
Language and communication disorders
Language and languages
Language disorders
Language Impairments
Linguistics
Male
Medical sciences
Morphemes
Morphemics
Morphology
Morphology (Languages)
Preschool Children
Production and perception of spoken language
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reproducibility of Results
Spanish language
Spanish Speaking
Specific language impairment
Speech disorders
Speech Disorders - diagnosis
Speech Impairments
Student Characteristics
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Verbs
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Summary:Relative to both same-age peers and younger typically developing children with similar mean lengths of utterance, 15 Spanish-speaking preschool children with specific language impairment showed more limited use of several different grammatical morphemes. These limitations were most marked for noun-related morphemes such as adjective-agreement inflections and direct object clitics. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
ISSN:1092-4388
1558-9102
DOI:10.1044/1092-4388(2001/072)