Profiling Grammar

More Languages of LARSP

Edited by Paul Fletcher, Dr. Martin J. Ball, David Crystal

Publication date:

02 February 2016

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783094868

This book brings together twelve previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP). The languages featured are: Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay and Swedish. Each chapter includes a grammatical sketch of the language, details of typical language development in speakers of the language, as well as a description of and justification for the profile itself. The book will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists and others wishing to analyse the grammatical abilities of individuals speaking one of these languages. This new collection complements a previous book in this series on the same theme: Assessing Grammar: The Languages of LARSP (Ball et al., 2012,).

Contributors
Introduction
1. Claire Penn and Heila Jordaan: Afrikaans LARSP: Past and Future?
2. Stavroula Stavrakaki and Areti Okalidou: Gr-LARSP: Towards a Greek Version of LARSP
3. Maria Rosenberg and Ingmarie Mellenius: Swe-LARSP: A Grammatical Profile of Swedish
4. Sari Kunnari, Lea Nieminen and Päivi Torvelainen: FIN-LARSP: Morphosyntactic Profiling of Finnish Children
5. Ferenc Bunta, Mária Gósy and Judit Bóna: HU-LARSP: Assessing Children's Language Skills in Hungarian
6. 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 Children
8. 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 Procedure
12. Cynthia Vakareliyska: Language-Specific Issues for the Bulgarian LARSP Profile and Adult Aphasia Examinations
13. Paul Fletcher and Pauline Frizelle: Complex Sentences in Development and Impairment: LARSP Stage V Revisited

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.