Grammatical Morphology and the Role of Weak Syllables in the Speech of Italian-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment.

Leonard, Laurence B.; Bortolini, Umberta

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ERIC Number: EJ577398

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Publication Date: 1998

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Grammatical Morphology and the Role of Weak Syllables in the Speech of Italian-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment.

Leonard, Laurence B.; Bortolini, Umberta

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v41 n6 p1363-74 Dec 1998

Twenty-five Italian-speaking children (ages 4 to 7) with specific language impairments were compared to younger control children in their use of auxiliary verbs, pronominal clitics, infinitives, present-tense verbal inflections, and articles. Differences favoring the control children were found for those morphemes that required the production of nonfinal weak syllables. (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Children, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Impairments, Language Usage, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Stress (Phonology), Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syllables, Verbal Communication, Vowels

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Italy

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