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Poupart, Annick; Trudeau, Natacha; Sutton, Ann – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
The use of augmentative and alternative communication systems based on graphic symbols requires children to learn to combine symbols to convey utterances. The current study investigated how children without disabilities aged 4 to 6 years (n = 74) performed on a simple sentence (subject-verb and subject-verb-object) transposition task (i.e., spoken…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Error Patterns, Verbs, Visual Aids
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Toth, Paul D.; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This paper compares explicit instruction in second-language Spanish with a control treatment on a written picture description task and a timed auditory grammaticality judgment task. Participants came from two intact, third-year US high school classes, with one experiencing a week of communicative lessons on the Spanish clitic "se"…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Pictorial Stimuli
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Royle, Phaedra; Thordardottir, Elin T. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
This study examines inflectional abilities in French-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) using a verb elicitation task. Eleven children with SLI and age-matched controls (37-52 months) participated in the experiment. We elicited the "passe compose" using eight regular and eight irregular high frequency verbs matched for age…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Error Patterns, French