Theoretical accounts of grammatical limitations in specific language impairment (SLI) have
been polarized between those that postulate problems with domain-specific grammatical …

A review of the literature on quantifying vocabulary richness gives the sense of a quest for
the Holy Grail–the search for a single, all-embracing, but elusive measure of the quality of …

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental
disorders. The influences of DLD on language development have been delineated in detail …

As the introduction to this collection of papers points out, vocabulary research in foreign
language teaching is far from the 'Cinderella subject'it was in the past; it is now recognised …

This article discusses issues in measuring lexical diversity, before outlining an approach
based on mathematical modelling that produces a measure, D, designed to address these …

Lexical diversity encompasses a wide variety of measures, all of which seek to quantify the
range of vocabulary deployed in a given text. Researchers use these measures of lexical …

Two studies of children's conversational language abilities are reported. In the first, mean
length of utterance (MLU) and lexical diversity (D) were examined in a group of typically …

Purpose: The growing interest in framing intervention approaches as either implicit or
explicit calls for a discussion of what makes intervention approaches engage each of these …

From the first moment of life, language development occurs in the context of social activities.
This book emphasises how language development interacts with social and cognitive …

There is growing but equivocal evidence that the language abilities of young children who
stutter (CWS) may be depressed when compared to those of their fluent peers. In particular …