Assessing Grammar

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 (2010), The Stories of English (2005) and Internet Linguistics (2011).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.

This new book brings together an amazing variety of approaches to LARSP including an elegant description of the origin and evolution of LARSP, an update on research on English language applications of LARSP, an evaluation of a computerized version, and reports on adaptations of LARSP to 13 different languages. The publication of LARSP applications across multiple languages expands opportunities for clinical applications as well as clinical research associated with LARSP. The book will serve as a resource for researchers (or students) seeking to identify gaps in research suitable for future attention.

• Martin J Ball: Introduction1. David Crystal: On the Origin of LARSPecies2. Paul Fletcher, Thomas Klee and William Gavin: LARSP Thirty Years On3. Steven Long: ‘Computerized Profiling’ of Clinical Language Samples and the Issue of Time4. Ruth Berman and Lyle Lustigman: HARSP: A Developmental Language Profile for Hebrew5. Harald Clahsen and Detlef Hansen: Profiling Linguistic Disability in German-Speaking Children6. Gerard W. Bol: GRAMAT: A Dutch Adaptation of LARSP7. Martin J. Ball and Enlli Môn Thomas: LLARSP: A Grammatical Profile for Welsh8. Jane Stokes: An Investigation of Syntax in Children of Bengali (Sylheti) Speaking Families9. Tina Hickey: ILARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Irish10. Habibeh Samadi and Mick Perkins: Persian: Devising the P-LARSP11. 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 Profile13. Christophe Parisse, Christelle Maillart and Jodi Tommerdahl: F-LARSP: A Computerized Tool for Measuring Morphosyntactic Abilities in French14. Ana Isabel Codesido-García, Carmen Julia Coloma, Elena Garayzábal-Heinze, Victoria Marrero, Elvira Mendoza, and Mª Mercedes Pávez: Spanish Acquisition and the Development of PERSL15. Seyhun Topbaş, Özlem Cangökçe-Yaşar and Martin J. Ball: LARSP for Turkish (TR-LARSP)