In order to study problems of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) with morphosyntax, we investigated twenty high-functioning Greek-speaking children (mean age: 6;11) and twenty age- and language-matched typically developing children on environments that allow or forbid object clitics or their corresponding noun phrase. Children with…

Findings of a seminar which explored the current linguistics methods of teaching elementary reading and examined the background of this approach and some programs constant with it are presented. The seminar established the following set of criteria for describing the important characteristics of a linguistics method: (1) task definitions of…

ONE OF THE INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION'S ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES IS CONCERNED WITH THE APPLICATION OF LINGUISTICS TO READING INSTRUCTION AND WAS PREPARED TO SERVE A WIDE RANGE OF USERS. IT CONTAINS ABOUT 100 CITATIONS OF BOOKS, RESEARCH REPORTS, DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, AND ARTICLES FROM PERIODICALS, YEARBOOKS, AND CONFERENCE…

Most studies of language acquisition overlook the fact that a child learns language in the context of acquiring the social skill of conversing known as "turn-taking." The few studies of verbal turn-taking in children suggest that prosodic features (suprasegmentals) and turn-taking skills are integrated by the age of two years, nine months, and…