Profiling Grammar More Languages of LARSP

by Fletcher, Paul; Ball, Martin J.; Crystal, David

• ISBN13: 9781783094868
• ISBN10: 1783094869
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-02-02
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This book brings together twelve previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP). The languages featured are: Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay and Swedish. Each chapter includes a grammatical sketch of the language, details of typical language development in speakers of the language, as well as a description of and justification for the profile itself. The book will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists and others wishing to analyse the grammatical abilities of individuals speaking one of these languages. This new collection complements a previous book in this series on the same theme: Assessing Grammar: The Languages of LARSP (Ball et al., 2012,).

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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