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Laurence B. Leonard

Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1971

Publications

335

Citations

19,052

Est. group size

~4

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

56

Publishing since 1971

Research summary
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Laurence B. Leonard's work focuses on how children acquire language, especially children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD, formerly called specific language impairment), a condition where children have unexpected difficulty learning to understand or use spoken language despite typical hearing and general cognitive abilities. His research examines grammatical development, such as verb and noun word-endings, across multiple languages including English, Spanish, and Turkish, and explores how findings can inform speech-language assessment and intervention.

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)Grammatical and morphological development in childrenCross-linguistic studies of language acquisitionLanguage assessment and diagnostic methodsLanguage intervention techniques

Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade, with a notable peak in 2021 followed by lower output in 2022-2023 and a partial rebound in 2024.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.4/year recently
2017: 9 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 5 publications202021: 11 publications11212022: 3 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 7 publications242025: 1 publication252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research×21
  • Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast)×5
  • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics×3
  • First Language×2
  • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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