Verb and Noun Morphology in the Spoken and Written Language of Children With Language Learning Disabilities

• Published in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research Vol. 43; no. 6; pp. 1322 - 1336
• Main Authors: Windsor, Jennifer, Scott, Cheryl M, Street, Cheryl K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rockville, MD ASHA 01.12.2000; American Speech Language Hearing Association; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Subjects: Accuracy; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child clinical studies; Child Language; Children; Children & youth; Female; Grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general; Grammatical errors; Humans; Language; Language and communication disorders; Language disordered children; Language disorders in children; Language Impairments; Learning Disabilities; Learning Disorders - diagnosis; Linguistics; Male; Medical sciences; Morphology; Morphology (Languages); Nouns; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reproducibility of Results; Speech; Student Characteristics; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Verbal Behavior; Verbal Learning; Verbs; Writing; Written Language; United States; Human; School age; Morphology; Oral communication; Written communication; Verb; Language development; Speech; Developmental disorder; Child; Language disorder; Noun
• ISSN: 1092-4388; 1558-9102
• DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4306.1322

A study investigated the use of verb and noun morphology in 60 children (ages 7-12) with and without language learning disabilities (LLD). Children with LLD showed high accuracy in spoken samples but substantial difficulty in written samples with the regular past tense and had difficulties with regular plurals. (Contains references.) (CR)