Profiling Grammar (eBook)

lt;p>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. He is the author, with Ciara O’Toole, of Language Development and Language Impairment: A Problem-based Introduction (2016).

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 (3rd edn, 2010), The Stories of English (2004) and Making a Point; the Pernickety Story of English Punctuation (2015).

Contributors

Introduction

1. Claire Penn and Heila Jordaan: Afrikaans LARSP: Past and Future?

2. Stavroula Stavrakaki and Areti Okalidou: Gr-LARSP: Towards a Greek Version of LARSP

3. Maria Rosenberg and Ingmarie Mellenius: Swe-LARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Swedish

4. Sari Kunnari, Lea Nieminen and Päivi Torvelainen: FIN-LARSP: Morphosyntactic Profiling of Finnish Children

5. Ferenc Bunta, Mária Gósy and Judit Bóna: HU-LARSP: Assessing Children's Language Skills in Hungarian

6. Brajesh Priyadarshi, Ramesh Kaipa and Shyamala K. Chengappa: Grammatical Profile of Hindi-speaking Children: H-LARSP

7. Varun Uthappa A. G., Shyamala K. Chengappa and Ramesh Kaipa: K-LARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Kannada-speaking Children

8. Rogayah A. Razak, Lixian Jin, Lim Hui Woan and Mohd Azmarul A. Aziz: Profiling Malay Children’s Syntactic Development: A Malay-LARSP

9. Man Tak Leung and Hong Lan Li: Cantonese LARSP: A Procedure for Assessment and Remediation for Cantonese-speaking Children

10. Tomohiko Itoh and Manabu Oi: Japanese: Devising the J-LARSP

11. Soyeong Pae: Korean LARSP: a Korean Language Assessment, Remediation, Screening Procedure

12. Cynthia Vakareliyska: Language-Specific Issues for the Bulgarian LARSP Profile and Adult Aphasia Examinations

13. Paul Fletcher and Pauline Frizelle: Complex Sentences in Development and Impairment: LARSP Stage V Revisited