TY - JOUR

T1 - Understanding the contributions of prosodic phonology to morphological development: Implications for children with Specific Language Impairment

AU - Demuth, Katherine

AU - Tomas, Ekaterina

N1 - Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was funded in part by the following grants: NIH R01HD057606, ARC FL130100014, ARC CE110001021. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2016.

PY - 2016/6/1

Y1 - 2016/6/1

N2 - A growing body of research with typically developing children has begun to show that the acquisition of grammatical morphemes interacts not only with a developing knowledge of syntax, but also with developing abilities at the interface with prosodic phonology. In particular, a Prosodic Licensing approach to these issues provides a framework for understanding why children's early use of grammatical morphemes is so variable. This in turn provides a means for making predictions, given the prosodic structure of a particular language and the location of a particular grammatical morpheme, if it is likely to be produced or not. Given that many of the patterns of development found in typically developing children are found in older children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) as well, the Prosodic Licensing Hypothesis should provide a better understanding of some of the variable use of grammatical morphemes found in children with SLI.

AB - A growing body of research with typically developing children has begun to show that the acquisition of grammatical morphemes interacts not only with a developing knowledge of syntax, but also with developing abilities at the interface with prosodic phonology. In particular, a Prosodic Licensing approach to these issues provides a framework for understanding why children's early use of grammatical morphemes is so variable. This in turn provides a means for making predictions, given the prosodic structure of a particular language and the location of a particular grammatical morpheme, if it is likely to be produced or not. Given that many of the patterns of development found in typically developing children are found in older children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) as well, the Prosodic Licensing Hypothesis should provide a better understanding of some of the variable use of grammatical morphemes found in children with SLI.

KW - Grammatical morphemes

KW - Language acquisition

KW - Phonology/morphology interface

KW - Prosodic phonology

KW - Specific Language Impairment

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U2 - 10.1177/0142723715626066

DO - 10.1177/0142723715626066

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:84974850980

VL - 36

SP - 265

EP - 278

JO - First Language

JF - First Language

SN - 0142-7237

IS - 3

ER -