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Elicitation in verb morphology

School of Psychology and Communication, University of Ulster, L.Klimacka{at}ulst.ac.uk

Karen Brunger

School of Psychology and Communication, University of Ulster

The underlying nature of developmental language disorders, particularly specific language impairment, is still an unresolved empirical and clinical issue, with much unexplained data and conflicting interpretations in the research. Nevertheless, recent developments in language acquisition theory have led to a characterization of disordered child language which provides clinicians with a deeper understanding of the linguistic deficits of many of the children within this heterogeneous population. The authors have formulated a variety of elicitation techniques for research, based on these developments. The focus of this paper is the verb system of language-impaired children and the techniques were designed for data gathering and as intervention paradigms. The elicitation techniques are described in detail and conclusions are drawn about the strengths, limitations and future implications of such methods in clinical application.

Child Language Teaching and Therapy, Vol. 15, No. 3, 247-259 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/026565909901500305


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