caa a22 4500 386335133 CHVBK 20180307111731.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0142716400008511 doi S0142716400008511 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0142716400008511 Leonard Laurence B. Purdue University Language learnability and specific language impairment in children [Elektronische Daten] [Laurence B. Leonard] Theories of language learnability have focused on "normal” language development, but there is a group of children, termed "specifically language-impaired,” for whom these theories are also appropriate. These children present an interesting learnability problem because they develop language slowly, the intermediate points in their development differ in certain respects from the usual developmental stages, and they do not always achieve the adult level of language functioning. In this article, specifically language-impaired children are treated as normal learners dealing with an input that is distorted in principled ways. When the children are viewed from this perspective, Pinker's (1984) theory can account for many of the features of their language. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/2(1989-06), 179-202 0142-7164 10:2<179 1989 10 APS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400008511 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400008511 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Leonard Laurence B. Purdue University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/2(1989-06), 179-202 0142-7164 10:2<179 1989 10 APS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge