Phonological Constraints on the Sentence Productions of Language-Disordered Children.

Effects of phonological and syntactic structure on the sentence productions of 10 language disordered school children (mean age 6.2 years) were investigated. Some of the results indicated that the syllabic complexity of target sentences as well as clause embedding significantly contributed to sentence inaccuracy (omission, substitution, addition, and transposition errors). (Author/MC)