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  1. Sentence Prediction Deficits in Developmental Language Disorder Are a Product of Vocabulary Knowledge and Processing Abilities

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  2. Word Learning in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: The Use of Retrieval Practice During Shared Book Reading

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard, Sofia M Souto

  3. Learning Verbs in Sentences: Children With Developmental Language Disorder and the Role of Retrieval Practice

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  4. Retrieval Practice and Word Learning by Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Does Expanding Retrieval Provide Additional Benefit?

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  5. Verb Vocabulary Supports Event Probability Use in Developmental Language Disorder

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard, Mine Muezzinoglu

  6. Sources of Misinterpretation in the Input and Their Implications for Language Intervention With English-Speaking Children

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, May 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  7. Can Retrieval Practice Facilitate Verb Learning in Children With Developmental Language Disorder and Their Peers With Typical Language Development?

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  8. The Neural Underpinnings of Processing Newly Taught Semantic Information: The Role of Retrieval Practice

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  9. Preschool children learn new adjectives: Evidence from event-related potentials

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard, Dr. Katelyn Lippitt Gerwin

  10. After Initial Retrieval Practice, More Retrieval Produces Better Retention Than More Study in the Word Learning of Children With Developmental Language Disorder

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  11. The Effects of Frequency and Predictability on Repetition in Children With Developmental Language Disorder

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  12. Adjective Learning in Young Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder: A Retrieval-Based Approach

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  13. Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Young Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder I: The Benefits of Repeated Retrieval

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard, Sofia M Souto

  14. Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Young Typically Developing Children and Children With Development Language Disorder II: A Comparison of Retrieval Schedules

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard, Sofia M Souto

  15. Verb Variability and Morphosyntactic Priming With Typically Developing 2- and 3-Year-Olds

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  16. Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Information in Preschool Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: A Follow-Up Study

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  17. Extending the Application of Tense and Agreement Measures: A Reply to Rispoli and Hadley (2018)

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  18. An Initial Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Word Processing in Preschoolers With Specific Language Impairment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  19. Tracking the Growth of Tense and Agreement in Children With Specific Language Impairment: Differences Between Measures of Accuracy, Diversity, and Productivity

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, December 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  20. Reciprocal relations between syntax and tense/agreement morphology in children’s interpretation of input: A look at children with specific language impairment

    Article • First Language, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  21. The Changing View of Input in the Treatment of Children With Grammatical Deficits

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  22. Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Information in 3-Year-Old Children With Typical Language Development: A Feasibility Study

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  23. A Clinical Evaluation of the Competing Sources of Input Hypothesis

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  24. Specific Language Impairment

    Article • April 2016

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  25. Noun-related morphosyntactic difficulties in specific language impairment across languages

    Article • First Language, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  26. Past Tense Production in Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment Across Germanic Languages: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  27. Children With a History of SLI Show Reduced Sensitivity to Audiovisual Temporal Asynchrony: An ERP Study

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  28. Input sources of third person singular -sinconsistency in children with and without specific language impairment

    Article • Journal of Child Language, July 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  29. Decreased Sensitivity to Long-Distance Dependencies in Children With a History of Specific Language Impairment: Electrophysiological Evidence

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  30. Specific Language Impairment Across Languages

    Article • Child Development Perspectives, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  31. The Effects of Production Demands on Grammatical Weaknesses in Specific Language Impairment: The Case of Clitic Pronouns in Italian

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  32. Sentence Comprehension in Specific Language Impairment: A Task Designed to Distinguish Between Cognitive Capacity and Syntactic Complexity

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  33. Alternative Tense and Agreement Morpheme Measures for Assessing Grammatical Deficits During the Preschool Period

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  34. Real-Word and Nonword Repetition in Italian-Speaking Children With Specific Language Impairment: A Study of Diagnostic Accuracy

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, February 2013, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  35. The Primacy of Priming in Grammatical Learning and Intervention: A Tutorial

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2011, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  36. Within-Treatment Factors as Predictors of Outcomes Following Conversational Recasting

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2010, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  37. Language combinations, subtypes, and severity in the study of bilingual children with specific language impairment

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, March 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  38. Theories of Language Learning and Children with Specific Language Impairment

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  39. Language Disorders in the Preschool Years

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, September 1994, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  40. Early emergence as a diagnostic for innateness

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 1991, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  41. Specific Language Impairment as a Clinical Category

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 1991, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  42. Facilitating Grammatical Development: The Contribution of Pragmatics

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  43. The acquisition of agglutinating languages: converging evidence from Tamil

    Article • Journal of Child Language, June 1989, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  44. Language learnability and specific language impairment in children

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, June 1989, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  45. Lexical influences on children's early positional patterns

    Article • Journal of Child Language, June 1986, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  46. Conversational Replies of Children with Specific Language Impairment

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 1986, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  47. Speech selection and modification in language-disordered children

    Article • Topics in Language Disorders, December 1983, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  48. Some further comments on reduplication in child phonology

    Article • Journal of Child Language, June 1983, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  49. Phonological deficits in children with developmental language impairment

    Article • Brain and Language, May 1982, Elsevier

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  50. Individual differences in early child phonology

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, February 1980, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  51. Children’s Judgments of Utterance Appropriateness

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 1979, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  52. The Early Lexicons of Normal and Language-Disordered Children: Developmental and Training Considerations

    Article • January 1979, Elsevier

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  53. Aphasics' comprehension of contextually conveyed meaning

    Article • Brain and Language, November 1978, Elsevier

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  54. The Phonology of Deviant Child Language

    Article • WORD, August 1978, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  55. Focus characteristics of single-word utterances after syntax

    Article • Journal of Child Language, February 1978, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  56. A note on imitation and lexical acquisition

    Article • Journal of Child Language, October 1976, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  57. Author’s Reply to M. D. Smith

    Article • Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, May 1975, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  58. Modeling as a Clinical Procedure in Language Training

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 1975, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  59. A Preliminary View of Generalization in Language Training

    Article • Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, November 1974, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  60. A Reexamination of Terms

    Article • Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, May 1974, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  61. Author’s Reply

    Article • Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, February 1974, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  62. The Nature of Deviant Articulation

    Article • Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, May 1973, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  63. Teaching by the Rules

    Article • Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, May 1973, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  64. Reply to Peterson and Butt

    Article • Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, September 1972, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  65. Developmental language disorders

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  66. Children’s Resolution of Pronominal Reference In Text Task

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard

  67. Is specific language impairment a useful construct?

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Laurence B. Leonard