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Peer reviewedRollins, Pamela R.; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1994
This study compared pragmatic skills of 5 children (ages 4-6) with specific language impairments (SLI) and their younger siblings matched for mean length of utterance. Analysis of communicative acts on three levels (social interchange, speech act, and conversational) indicated comparable performance within sibling pairs, but SLI children…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
