Language Learnability and Specific Language Impairment in Children.

Leonard, Laurence B.

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Language Learnability and Specific Language Impairment in Children.

Leonard, Laurence B.

Applied Psycholinguistics, v10 n2 p179-202 Jun 1989

Attempts to demonstrate that specifically language-impaired (SLI) children can be viewed as normal learners faced with systematically altered input. By assuming SLI children are limited in their ability to perceive and hypothesize grammatical morphemes that are low in phonetic substance, many features of SLI children's language can be explained by Pinker's Learnability Theory. (58 references) (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps, Language Processing, Language Skills, Linguistic Theory, Morphemes, Preadolescents

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