Specific language impairment as a period of extended optional infinitive.
@article{Rice1995SpecificLI, title={Specific language impairment as a period of extended optional infinitive.}, author={M. Rice and K. Wexler and P. Cleave}, journal={Journal of speech and hearing research}, year={1995}, volume={38 4}, pages={ 850-63 } }
English-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) are known to have particular difficulty with the acquisition of grammatical morphemes that carry tense and agreement features, such as the past tense -ed and third-person singular present -s. In this study, an Extended Optional Infinitive (EOI) account of SLI is evaluated. In this account, -ed, -s, BE, and DO are regarded as finiteness markers. This model predicts that finiteness markers are omitted for an extended period of time… CONTINUE READING
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