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This book brings together versions of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) in 13 different languages from around the world. It will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists around the world and for those wishing to analyse the grammatical abilities of clients of many linguistic backgrounds.
List of contents
Martin J Ball: Introduction 1. David Crystal: On the origin of LARSPecies 2. Paul Fletcher, Thomas Klee and William Gavin: LARSP Thirty Years On 3. Steven Long: 'Computerized Profiling' of Clinical Language Samples and the Issue of Time 4. Ruth Berman and Lyle Lustigman: HARSP: A Developmental Language Profile for Hebrew 5. Harald Clahsen and Detlef Hansen: Profiling Linguistic Disability in German-Speaking Children 6. Gerard W. Bol: GRAMAT: A Dutch adaptation of LARSP 7. Martin J. Ball and Enlli Mon Thomas: LLARSP: A Grammatical Profile for Welsh 8. Jane Stokes: An Investigation of Syntax in Children of Bengali (Sylheti) Speaking Families 9. Tina Hickey: ILARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Irish 10. Habibeh Samadi and Mick Perkins: Persian: Devising the P-LARSP 11. Jelske Dijkstra and Liesbeth Schlichting: Frisian TARSP. Based on the methodology of Dutch TARSP. 12. Lixian Jin with Bee Lim Oh and Rogayah A. Razak: C-LARSP: Developing a Chinese Grammatical Profile 13. Christophe Parisse, Christelle Maillart and Jodi Tommerdahl: F-LARSP: A Computerized Tool for Measuring Morphosyntactic Abilities in French 14. Ana Isabel Codesido-Garcia, Carmen Julia Coloma, Elena Garayzabal-Heinze, Victoria Marrero, Elvira Mendoza, and M* Mercedes Pavez: Spanish Acquisition and the Development of PERSL 15. Seyhun Topbas, Ozlem Cangokce-Yasar and Martin J. Ball: LARSP for Turkish (TR-LARSP)
About the author
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.
Summary
This book brings together versions of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) in 13 different languages from around the world. It will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists around the world and for those wishing to analyse the grammatical abilities of clients of many linguistic backgrounds.
