Morphological Productivity in Children With Normal Language and SLI: A Study of the English Past Tense

Comparison of English past-tense productivity in 31 school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 31 children with no language (NL) impairment found SLI children made more errors, with a greater proportion resulting from overuse of unmarked grammatical forms (e.g., "go")...

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Published inJournal of speech, language, and hearing research Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 206 - 219
Main Authors Marchman, Virginia A, Wulfeck, Beverly, Weismer, Susan Ellis
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States ASHA 01.02.1999
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Subjects
Child
Child Language
Children
Children & youth
Elementary Education
English language
Error Patterns
Expressive Language
Grammar
Humans
Language Acquisition
Language development
Language Disorders - diagnosis
Language Impairments
Language Tests
Mental Age
Morphemes
Morphology (Languages)
Neighborhoods
Networks
Nouns
Past tense
Phonemes
Phonology
Severity of Illness Index
Specific language impairment
Speech disorders
Suffixes
Tenses (Grammar)
Verbs
Vowels
Young children
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Summary:Comparison of English past-tense productivity in 31 school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 31 children with no language (NL) impairment found SLI children made more errors, with a greater proportion resulting from overuse of unmarked grammatical forms (e.g., "go") than from suffixation (e.g., "goed"). Children with SLI were more sensitive to item phonology than were NL peers. (Author/DB)
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ISSN:1092-4388
1558-9102
DOI:10.1044/jslhr.4201.206