Past tense morphology in specically language impaired and normally developing children
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This study evaluates the input-processing decit/single system and the grammar-specic decit/dual system models to account for past tense formation in impaired and normal language development. We investigated regular and irregular past tense formation of 60 real and novel regular and irregular verbs in ‘‘Grammatical (G)-SLI’’ children (aged 9:3 to 12:10) and morphologicalor vocabulary-matched younger control children. The G-SLI children and language ability (LA) controls showed quantitatively and qualitatively different patterns of performance. The LA controls, but not the
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