TY - JOUR
T1 - Bound-morpheme skills in the oral language of school-age, language-impaired children
AU - Bellaire, Stacy
AU - Plante, Elena
AU - Swisher, Linda
N1 - Funding Information:
Work at the Child Language Laboratory is supported by U.S. Department ot Education Grant #HO2YD20070. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant #KO8DCOOO77. and the Tucson Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation.
PY - 1994/12
Y1 - 1994/12
N2 - Bound-morpheme skills of school-age, language-impaired (LI) children were explored with three tasks designed to assess multiple dimensions of this component of language. Ten English-speaking, school-age LI children (Mean age: 10:3) and ten children with normal language (Mean age: 9:9) served as subjects. A two-way analysis of variance revealed significant group differences. Fisher a priori testing documented significant group differences for a measure of English bound-morpheme skill levels, a measure of ability to generalize English bound-morphemes to novel words, and a measure of ability to learn novel bound-morphemes attached to novel words. The findings indicate that core features of developmental language impairment in preschool children-poor ability to learn, to use, and to generalize bound-morphemes-are also present in school-age, LI children.
AB - Bound-morpheme skills of school-age, language-impaired (LI) children were explored with three tasks designed to assess multiple dimensions of this component of language. Ten English-speaking, school-age LI children (Mean age: 10:3) and ten children with normal language (Mean age: 9:9) served as subjects. A two-way analysis of variance revealed significant group differences. Fisher a priori testing documented significant group differences for a measure of English bound-morpheme skill levels, a measure of ability to generalize English bound-morphemes to novel words, and a measure of ability to learn novel bound-morphemes attached to novel words. The findings indicate that core features of developmental language impairment in preschool children-poor ability to learn, to use, and to generalize bound-morphemes-are also present in school-age, LI children.
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U2 - 10.1016/0021-9924(94)90017-5
DO - 10.1016/0021-9924(94)90017-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 7876407
AN - SCOPUS:0028598181
VL - 27
SP - 265
EP - 279
JO - Clinics in communication disorders
JF - Clinics in communication disorders
SN - 0021-9924
IS - 4
ER -