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July 27, 2005 Xth ICSCL, Berlin The Use of Aspect markers in Mandarin-speaking Children with Specific Language * Impairment Hintat Cheung National Taiwan University Abstract Difficulties in grammatical morphology have been considered a hallmark for specific language impairment (SLI) in English-speaking children. Cross-linguistically, deficits in grammatical morphology are observed in languages like German and Swedish where inflectional morphology plays an important role. Stokes and Fletcher (2003) found that Cantonese-speaking children with SLI were less productive in using aspect markers and such deficit is interpreted as a consequence of their limited processing capacity. This study examined the use of aspect markers in Mandarin-speaking children with SLI by an elicitation task and a standardized picture comprehension test. Their memory spans were measured by a word span task and a non-word repetition task. Our results show that, on one hand, these children improved in their production of aspect marker within one year