Editor’s Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Editor’s Introduction ix
5. I. Phonology in clinical applications
6. Phonology as human behavior 3
7. Segmental vs syllable markedness 23
8. II. Words in deafness and stuttering
9. Morphosyntactic fragility in the spoken and written Italian of the deaf 49
10. The EXPLAN theory of fluency control applied to the diagnosis of stuttering 75
11. The EXPLAN theory of fluency control applied to the treatment of stuttering 95
12. III. Morphology and syntax in child language disorders
13. Verb Movement and finiteness in language impairment and language development 119
14. A-bar movement constructions in Greek children with SLI 131
15. Morphological accessibility in Zulu 155
16. Language production in Japanese preschoolers with specific language impairment 175
17. IV. Issues on grammar and cognition
18. Testing linguistic concepts 197
19. SLI and modularity 213
20. The language/cognition interface 229
21. V. Grammatical structure in aphasia
22. Grammar and fluent aphasia 249
23. Failure to agree in agrammatism 267
24. The Verb and Sentence test 279
25. Case assignment as an explanation for determiner omission in German agrammatic speech 299
26. The role of verbal morphology in aphasia during lexical access 315
27. Index of Subjects 337
28. List of Contributors 345