Assessing Grammar The Languages of LARSP

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

• ISBN13: 9781847696380
• ISBN10: 1847696384
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-08
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This collection brings together versions of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) in thirteen different languages from around the world. It will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists in many different cou

Author Biography

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 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 linguistics of Welsh. David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, Wales, 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, The Stories of English, and Internet Linguistics. Paul Fletcher is Emeritus Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork. 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
On the Origin of LARSPecies	p. 4
LARSP Thirty Years On	p. 12
Computerized Profiling' of Clinical Language Samples and the Issue of Time	p. 29
HARSP: A Developmental Language Profile for Hebrew	p. 43
Profiling Linguistic Disability in German-Speaking Children	p. 77
GRAMAT: A Dutch Adaptation of LARSP	p. 92
LLARSP: A Grammatical Profile for Welsh	p. 110
An Investigation of Syntax in Children of Bengali (Sylheti)-Speaking Families	p. 139
ILARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Irish	p. 149
Persian: Devising the P-LARSP	p. 167
Frisian TARSP. Based on the methodology of Dutch TARSP	p. 189
C-LARSP: Developing a Chinese Grammatical Profile	p. 208
F-LARSP: A Computerized Tool for Measuring Morphosyntactic Abilities in French	p. 230
Spanish Acquisition and the Development of PERSL	p. 245
LARSP for Turkish (TR-LARSP)	p. 282
Subject Index	p. 306
Author Index	p. 315
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