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van der Lely, H. K. J. & Marshall, C. R. (in press). Assessing component language deficits in the early detection of reading difficulty risk. Journal of Learning Disabilities.

van der Lely, H. K. J., Jones, M. & Marshall, C. R. (in press). *Who did Buzz see someone? Grammaticality judgements of wh-questions in typically developing children and children with Grammatical-SLI. Lingua. Special issue on Wh-Questions for Celia Jakowbovitz.

van der Lely, H. K. J & Marshall C. (2009) Grammatical-specific language impairment: A window onto domain specificity. Handbook of Psycholinguistics & Cognitive Processing Perspectives in Communication Disorders J. Guendouzi, F. Loncke, M. Williams (Eds) LEA Taylor & Francis.

Marshall, C. R. and van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009). Effects of word position and stress on onset cluster production: Evidence from typical development, SLI and dyslexia. Language, 85, 39-57

van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009) Language disorders and delay. In Shweder, Richard A., Thomas R. Bidell, Anne C. Dailey, Suzanne D. Dixon, Peggy J. Miller, and John Modell, eds. The child: An encyclopaedic companion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp 549-552.

Rosen, S. Adlard, A. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009) Backward and simultaneous masking in children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment: No evidence for a link between auditory and language abilities. Journal of Speech, Hearing and Language Research. 52, 396-411.

Marshall, C. R., Harcourt-Brown, S., Ramus, F. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009). The link between prosody and language skills in children with SLI and/or dyslexia. International Journal of Language and Comunication Disorders, 44 (4), 466-488.

Fonteneau, E., & van der Lely, H. (2008) Electrical brain responses in language-impaired children reveal grammar-specific deficits. PLoS ONE, 3(3).Download PDF

Froud, K. & van der Lely H.K.J. (2008).The count-mass distinction in typically developing and grammatically specifically language impaired children: new evidence on the role of syntax and semantics. Journal of Communication Disorders, 41: 274-303.Download PDF

Colle L, Baron-Cohen S, Wheelwright S & van der Lely H.K.J. (2008). Narrative discourse in adults with high-functioning autism or asperger syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord 38: 28-40.

Marshall, C.R. & van der Lely H. K. J. (2008) Recognition of gated verbs by children with Grammatical-SLI: Effects of inflection and frequency. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21, 433-451. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. with Gardner, H., Froud, K. & McClelland, A. (2007). The Grammar and Phonology Screening (GAPS) Test . Published by DLDCN.com (www.dldcn.com)

Ebbels, S., van der Lely, H. K. J. & Dockrell, J. (2007) Intervention for verb argument structure in children with persistent SLI: A randomized control trial. Journal of Speech, Hearing and Language Research, 50, 1330-1349.

Gallon, N., Harris. J. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2007) Non-word repetition: An investigation of phonological complexity in children with Grammatical SLI. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 21, 435-455

Harris, J., Gallon, N., van der Lely, H. K. J. (2007). Prosodic complexity and processing complexity: evidence from language impairment. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Lingüística, 6.

Marinis, T., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2007). On-line processing of wh-questions in children with G-SLI and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 42, 5, 557-582..

Marshall C.R, Marinis, T., & van der Lely H.K.J. (2007) Passive verb morphology: The effect of phonotactics on passive comprehension in typically developing and Grammatical-SLI children. Lingua, 117, 1434-1447

Marshall C.R & van der Lely H.K.J. (2007) Derivational morphology in children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 42, 71 - 91.

van der Lely, H. K. J. & Gallon, N. (2006) Exploring the impact of higher-level linguistic representations on non-word repetition performance. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 591-594.

Marshall, C. & van der Lely, H. (2006) A challenge to current models of past tense inflection: the impact of phonotactics. Cognition. 100, 2, 302-320. Download PDF

Gardner, H., Froud, K., McClelland, A. & van der Lely, H. (2006) The development of the Grammar and Phonology Screening (GAPS) test to assess key markers of specific language difficulties in young children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (2005). Grammatical-SLI and the computational grammatical complexity hypothesis. Revue Frequences, 17, 3, 13-20 Download PDF

van der Lely H K. J. (2005). Domain-specific cognitive systems: Insight from Grammatical specific language impairment. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 2, 53-59 Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J., Rosen, S. & Adlard, A. (2004). Grammatical language impairment and the specificity of cognitive domains: Relations between auditory and language abilities. Cognition 94, 2, 167-183.Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (2004). Evidence for and implications of a domain-specific grammatical deficit. In Lyle Jenkins (Ed.) The genetics of Language. Linguistic Variations series. Series editors J. Rooryck and P. Pica. Elsevier, Oxford: Chapter 6, pp117-145.Download PDF

Marshall, C. R., Harris, J. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2003). The nature of phonological representations in children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). In Hall, D., Markopoulos, T., Salamoura, A. & Skoufaki, S. (Eds.) Proceedings of the University of Cambridge First Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge: Cambridge Institute of Language Research, pp. 511-517.Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. & Battell, J. (2003). Wh-movement in children with grammatical SLI: a test of the RDDR Hypothesis. Language, 79, 1, 153-181. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (2003). Do heterogeneous SLI deficits need heterogeneous theories? SLI subgroups, G-SLI and the RDDR hypothesis. In Yonata Levy & Jeannette Schaeffer (Eds.) Towards a definition of specific language impairment. Lawrence Erlbaum,109-134.Download PDF

Marshall, C., Ebbels, S., Harris, J., van der Lely, H. K. J. (2002). Investigating the impact of prosodic complexity on the speech of children with Specific Language Impairment. In Vermeulen, R. & Neeleman, A. (eds).UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 14, 43-66. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (2002). SLI and deficits in the computational syntactic system: A commentary on W. Frawley "Control and cross-domain mental computations: Evidence from language breakdown". Computational Intelligence, 18, 1, 39-42. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Ullman, M. (2001). Past tense morphology in specifically language impaired children and normally developing children. Language and Cognitive Processes 16, 177-217.Download PDF

Ebbels, S. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2001). Meta-syntactic therapy for children with severe persistent SLI using visual coding. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 36 (supplement), 345-50. Download PDF

Bishop, D., Bright, P., James, C., Bishop, S., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2000). Grammatical SLI: A distinct subtype of developmental language impairment? Applied Psycholinguistics, 21, 159-181. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. & Christian, V. (2000). Lexical word formation in Grammatical SLI children: A grammar-specific or input-processing deficit? Cognition, 75, 33-63. Download PDF

Davies, L & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2000). The use of negative particles in children with grammatical SLI. Paper presented at the 24th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston: MASS USA.

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1999). Learning from Grammatical SLI. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 8, 286-288. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. & Wexler, K. (1998). Introduction to specific language impairment in children. Language Acquisition. 7, 83-85. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1998). SLI in children: Movement, Economy and Deficits in the computational-syntactic system. Language Acquisition, 7, 161-192. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1998). Guest Editor: Special issue on Specific Language Impairment. International Journal: Language Acquisition, 7 volumes 2-4.

van der Lely, H. K. J., Rosen, S. & McClelland, A. (1998). Evidence for a Grammar specific deficit in children. Current Biology, 8, 23, 1253-1258. Download PDF

Rosen S., van der Lely, H. & Dry, S. (1997). Speech and non-speech auditory abilities in two children with disordered language. Speech, Hearing & Language. 10, 185-198. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1997). Modularity and Innateness: Insight from a Grammatical specific languge impairement. In A. Sorace, C. Heycock, R. Shillcock. (eds.). Proceedings of the GALA '97 Conference on Language Acquisition. Scotland: University of Edinburgh press. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1997). Language and Cognitive development in a Grammatical SLI boy: Modularity and Innateness. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 10, 75-107. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J., (1997). Narrative discourse in Grammatical specific language impaired children: A modular language deficit? Journal of Child Language, 24, 221-256. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Stollwerck, L. (1997). Binding theory and specifically language impaired children. Cognition, 62, 245-290. Download PDF

Surian, L., Baron-Cohen, S., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (1996). Are children with Autism deaf to Grician Maxims? Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 1, 55-71. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Stollwerck, L. (1996). A grammatical specific language impairment in children: An Autosomal Dominant Inheritance? Brain & Language. 52, 484-504. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1996). La Dysphasie Agrammatique chez les enfants: Une Perspective psycholinguisique. Ier Congress Des Ameriques. In E. Ezelin (Ed.) Federation Nationale des Orthophonistes. Guadaloupe Press. pp 101-110.

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1996). Specifically language impaired and normally developing children: Verbal passive vs adjectival passive sentence interpretation. Lingua. 98, 243-272. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1996). Language Modularity and Grammatically Specific language impaired children. In M. Aldridge (ed.) Child Language. Multilingual Matters Ltd. Avon:UK. pp 188-201.Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1996). Empirical evidence for the modularity of language from Grammatical SLI children.Proceedings of The 20 annual Boston University conference on language development. Volume 2. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 781-791. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Ullman, M. (1996). The computation and representation of past-tense morphology in normally developing and specifically language impaired children. In A.Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, & A. Zukowski (eds.) Proceedings of The 20 annual Boston University conference on language development. Volume 2. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 792-803. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1996). Grammatical specific language impaired children: Evidence for Modularity. In C. Koster, & F. Wijnen (eds.). The Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition. University of Groningen Press. Groningen: Netherlands. pp 273-282. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1996). Do Grammatical specifically language impaired children have a modular language deficit? Proceedings from The Child Language Seminar, 1995. University of Bristol. Download PDF

Howard, D., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (1995). Specific language impairment in children is not due to a short term memory deficit: Response to Gathercole & Baddeley. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 38, 463-477.

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1994). Canonical linking rules: Forward vs Reverse linking in normally developing and specifically language impaired children. Cognition, 51, 29-72. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Howard, D. (1993). Specifically language impaired children: Linguistic impairment or short term memory deficit? Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 37, 1193-1207. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1993a). Book review: Richard F. Cromer: Language and Thought in Normal and Handicapped Children. Oxford: Blackwells, 1991 Mind and Language, 8, 450-458.

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1993b). Specifically language impaired children and normally developing children: Different patterns of sentence comprehension. In J. Clibbens & B. Pendleton (eds.) Proceedings from The Child Language Seminar, 1993 University of Plymouth, England. pp. 59-80.

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1993c). Specific language impairment in children: Research findings and their therapeutic implications. European Journal of Disorders of Communication, 28, (3) 247-261. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J. (1992). Theory meets Therapy. College of Speech and Language Therapy Bulletin, 487, 9-12.

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Harris, M. (1990). Comprehension of reversible sentences in specifically language impaired children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 55, 101-117. Download PDF

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Wells, W. (1989). Book Review. Clinical Phonology. (2nd Edition) Pam Grunwell. First Language, 9, 245-247.

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Dewart, M. H. (1987). How do specifically language impaired children understand sentences? Proceedings from the First International Symposium for Specific Speech and Language Disorders in Children. AFASIC: London.

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Dewart, M. H. (1986). Sentence comprehension strategies in specifically language impaired children. The British Journal of Disorders of Communication, 21, 291-306.

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