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MORPHOLOGICAL DEFICITS IN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT

Award Number: R01DC000458
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 04/01/1988
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2011

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MORPHOLOGICAL DEFICITS IN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Children with specific language impairment (SLI) often show serious limitations in grammatical ability. A clearer understanding of the reasons for these limitations could lead to more accurate methods of diagnosis and more effective methods of treatment for these children. The purpose of the proposed project is to explore the possible bases of the serious grammatical limitations exhibited by children with SLI. To accomplish this general goal, the grammatical comprehension and production abilities of children with SLI will be examined across four languages, English, Italian, Finnish, and Hungarian. Data from these different languages will be used to assess the relative adequacy of three recent accounts of grammatical deficits in English-speaking children with SLI. Because the grammatical properties of Italian, Finnish, and Hungarian differ from those of English in critical ways, they offer a clearer view of the contribution of factors that are confounded in English, thereby facilitating interpretation of the data obtained from the English-speaking children with SLI. Inclusion of these other languages will also permit a determination of whether problems attributed to the grammatical details of tense and agreement are being compounded by problems with grammatical aspect. The experimental procedures are also designed to identify problems in sentence formulation that may exacerbate any difficulty attributable to limited grammatical knowledge. Finally, through careful selection of the grammatical details to be studied, it will be possible to determine whether children with SLI who speak African American English have serious difficulties in the same areas of grammar that have been found most fragile in mainstream American Englishspeaking children with SLI. Such a finding could lead to a uniform theory of how language impairment might develop and persist among children acquiring English.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2011 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2011	2007	PURDUE UNIVERSITY	610 PURDUE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	20	11/2/2010	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2009 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2009	2007	PURDUE UNIVERSITY	610 PURDUE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	20	7/9/2009	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2007 ( Subtotal = $755,517 )
2007	2007	PURDUE UNIVERSITY	610 PURDUE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	20	7/23/2007	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$755,517
														Subtotal = $755,517

Issue Date FY: 2006 ( Subtotal = $790,851 )
2006	2006	PURDUE UNIVERSITY	610 PURDUE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	19	7/22/2006	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$790,851
														Subtotal = $790,851

Issue Date FY: 2005 ( Subtotal = $655,801 )
2005	2005	PURDUE UNIVERSITY	SPONS PROGRAMS-1063 HOVDE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	18	8/1/2005	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$655,801
														Subtotal = $655,801

Issue Date FY: 2004 ( Subtotal = $314,876 )
2004	2004	PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	SPONS PROGRAMS-1063 HOVDE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	17	6/25/2004	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$314,876
														Subtotal = $314,876

Issue Date FY: 2003 ( Subtotal = $444,373 )
2003	2003	PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	SPONS PROGRAMS-1063 HOVDE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	16	6/27/2003	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$444,373
														Subtotal = $444,373

Issue Date FY: 2002 ( Subtotal = $552,229 )
2002	2002	PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	SPONS PROGRAMS-1063 HOVDE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	15	6/24/2002	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$552,229
														Subtotal = $552,229

Issue Date FY: 2001 ( Subtotal = $563,255 )
2001	2001	PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	SPONS PROGRAMS-1063 HOVDE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	14	8/3/2001	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$563,255
														Subtotal = $563,255

Issue Date FY: 2000 ( Subtotal = $458,170 )
2000	2000	PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	610 PURDUE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	13	6/29/2000	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$458,170
														Subtotal = $458,170

Issue Date FY: 1999 ( Subtotal = $264,772 )
1999	1999	PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	610 PURDUE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	12	5/10/1999	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$264,772
														Subtotal = $264,772

Issue Date FY: 1998 ( Subtotal = $388,452 )
1998	1998	PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	610 PURDUE HALL	WEST LAFAYETTE	IN	47907	TIPPECANOE	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	11	5/21/1998	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$388,452
														Subtotal = $388,452

Grand Total All Awards = $5,188,296

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MORPHOLOGICAL DEFICITS IN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT

Award Number: R01DC000458

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 04/01/1988

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2011

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