Morphological usage and awareness in children with and without specific language impairment

Karen M. Smith-Lock

doi:10.1007/BF02648217

Morphological usage and awareness in children with and without specific language impairment

Karen M. Smith-Lock^*

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In order to investigate the relationship between oral language usage and morphological awareness, 5- to 7-year-old children with specific language impairment (SLI) were compared to age-matched (AM) and language-matched (LM) comparison groups on a variety of measures requiring metalinguistic skill. These included sentence completion (involving real and nonsense words); comprehension of inflected non-words; response to morphological errors (including judgment, identification, and repair), and deliberate creation of grammatical violations. Overall, the SLI children performed significantly worse than their AM peers and were indistinguishable from younger LM children, suggesting that morphological awareness is more closely allied with oral language than with general cognitive/chronological development.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	161-185
Number of pages	25
Journal	Annals of Dyslexia
Volume	45
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02648217
Publication status	Published - Jan 1995

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