Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from March 2003

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from March 2003

Introduction.(children with specific language impairment)
March 1, 2003... This special issue of Linguistics is devoted to recent findings about children with specific language impairment (henceforth SLI) learning different first and second languages. Children with SLI form a subgroup of those language users who have...

Computational complexity and the acquisition of functional categories by French-speaking children with SLI (1).(specific language impairment)
March 1, 2003... Abstract Previous research conducted with French-speaking normally developing children and children with specific language impairment has shown a striking asymmetry between present and past tense production--the passe compose--in favor of...

The development of sentence-interpretation strategies in monolingual German-learning children with and without specific language impairment *.
March 1, 2003... Abstract Previous research on sentence comprehension conducted with German-learning children has concentrated on the role of case marking and word order in typically developing children. This paper compares the performance of...

Measuring language development in bilingual children: Swedish-Arabic children with and without language impairment *.
March 1, 2003... Abstract Data from ten Swedish-Arabic preschool children with language impairment and ten Swedish-Arabic children with normal language development matched for age and exposure to Swedish were analyzed Specific tasks for both Swedish and...

Learning the meaning of verbs: what distinguishes language-impaired from normally developing children? *.
March 1, 2003... Abstract Using evidence from both production and comprehension data, this paper addresses the question of how normally developing and language-impaired children acquire the meanings of first verbs. The spontaneous speech of seven...

The acquisition of past tense in preschool children with specific language impairment and unaffected controls: regular and irregular forms *.
March 1, 2003... Abstract The main aim of this study was to provide an analysis of the acquisition of past tense in preschool children with specific language impairment (SLI) and unaffected controls. Data from three children with SLI, two boys and one...

The use and productivity of verb morphology in specific language impairment: an examination of Swedish (1).
March 1, 2003... Abstract In an earlier study, we found that Swedish-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) differ from younger normally developing compatriots on only a subset of verb morphemes characteristically problematic for...

Aspectual forms in Cantonese children with specific language impairment *.
March 1, 2003... Abstract Recent accounts of morphological deficits in children with specific language impairment contrast grammar-deficit explanations, for difficulties these children have with finite verb morphology, with accounts that appeal to...

The use of context in pragmatic comprehension by specifically language-impaired and control children (1).
March 1, 2003... Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore how a theory of pragmatic comprehension, relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995), can be used to examine contextual processing in pragmatic comprehension. It will present data from a task...