Profiling Grammar

Paul Fletcher is Emeritus Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork, Ireland. 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. He is the author, with Ciara O’Toole, of Language Development and Language Impairment: A Problem-based Introduction (2016).Martin J. Ball is Professor of Speech Language Pathology at Linköping University, Sweden. 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 Celtic languages.David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor, 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 (3rd edn, 2010), The Stories of English (2004) and Making a Point; the Pernickety Story of English Punctuation (2015).

This well-conceived and innovative volume breathes new life into LARSP, extending the number of languages to which it has now been applied to 24, with the promise of more to come. Not only does it thus make LARSP available to many more clinicians around the world, but by providing a common template for linguistic comparison it also gives added impetus to crosslinguistic research into both typical and atypical language use and development.

• ContributorsIntroduction1. Claire Penn and Heila Jordaan: Afrikaans LARSP: Past and Future?2. Stavroula Stavrakaki and Areti Okalidou: Gr-LARSP: Towards a Greek Version of LARSP3. Maria Rosenberg and Ingmarie Mellenius: Swe-LARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Swedish4. Sari Kunnari, Lea Nieminen and Päivi Torvelainen: FIN-LARSP: Morphosyntactic Profiling of Finnish Children5. Ferenc Bunta, Mária Gósy and Judit Bóna: HU-LARSP: Assessing Children's Language Skills in Hungarian6. Brajesh Priyadarshi, Ramesh Kaipa and Shyamala K. Chengappa: Grammatical Profile of Hindi-speaking Children: H-LARSP 7. Varun Uthappa A. G., Shyamala K. Chengappa and Ramesh Kaipa: K-LARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Kannada-speaking Children8. Rogayah A. Razak, Lixian Jin, Lim Hui Woan and Mohd Azmarul A. Aziz: Profiling Malay Children’s Syntactic Development: A Malay-LARSP 9. Man Tak Leung and Hong Lan Li: Cantonese LARSP: A Procedure for Assessment and Remediation for Cantonese-speaking Children 10. Tomohiko Itoh and Manabu Oi: Japanese: Devising the J-LARSP 11. Soyeong Pae: Korean LARSP: a Korean Language Assessment, Remediation, Screening Procedure12. Cynthia Vakareliyska: Language-Specific Issues for the Bulgarian LARSP Profile and Adult Aphasia Examinations13. Paul Fletcher and Pauline Frizelle: Complex Sentences in Development and Impairment: LARSP Stage V Revisited