Assessing Grammar

Martin J. Ball is Professor of Speech Language Pathology at Linköping University, Sweden. He is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics (Taylor & Francis), and the book series Communication Disorders Across Languages (Multilingual Matters). His main research interests include sociolinguistics, clinical phonetics and phonology, and the Celtic languages. David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor, UK. Since 1984, he has worked from his home in Holyhead, North Wales as a writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster on linguistics, applied linguistics, and English language studies. His books include The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (2010), The Stories of English (2005) and Internet Linguistics (2011). Paul Fletcher is Emeritus Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork, Ireland. Since the 1970s he has published widely on language development and language impairment in children speaking English, and more recently on those speaking Cantonese and Mandarin. His research focus, initially primarily on syntax, has broadened to include vocabulary, and the interaction between vocabulary and syntax in language development.

Martin J Ball: Introduction



1. David Crystal: On the Origin of LARSPecies



2. Paul Fletcher, Thomas Klee and William Gavin: LARSP Thirty Years On



3. Steven Long: ‘Computerized Profiling’ of Clinical Language Samples and the Issue of Time



4. Ruth Berman and Lyle Lustigman: HARSP: A Developmental Language Profile for Hebrew



5. Harald Clahsen and Detlef Hansen: Profiling Linguistic Disability in German-Speaking Children



6. Gerard W. Bol: GRAMAT: A Dutch Adaptation of LARSP



7. Martin J. Ball and Enlli Môn Thomas: LLARSP: A Grammatical Profile for Welsh



8. Jane Stokes: An Investigation of Syntax in Children of Bengali (Sylheti) Speaking Families



9. Tina Hickey: ILARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Irish



10. Habibeh Samadi and Mick Perkins: Persian: Devising the P-LARSP



11. Jelske Dijkstra and Liesbeth Schlichting: Frisian TARSP. Based on the Methodology of Dutch TARSP.



12. Lixian Jin with Bee Lim Oh and Rogayah A. Razak: C-LARSP: Developing a Chinese Grammatical Profile



13. Christophe Parisse, Christelle Maillart and Jodi Tommerdahl: F-LARSP: A Computerized Tool for Measuring Morphosyntactic Abilities in French



14. Ana Isabel Codesido-García, Carmen Julia Coloma, Elena Garayzábal-Heinze, Victoria Marrero, Elvira Mendoza, and Mª Mercedes Pávez: Spanish Acquisition and the Development of PERSL



15. Seyhun Topbaş, Özlem Cangökçe-Yaşar and Martin J. Ball: LARSP for Turkish (TR-LARSP)