P-LARSP - A DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE PROFILE FOR PERSIAN

This paper describes P-LARSP, an adaptation of the LARSP profile for P ersian. It is based on data collected as part of a longitudinal study of three monolingual Persian-speaking children between the ages of 1;8 and 3;0, 2;2 and 3;2 and 2;4 and 3;4, and the resulting profile chart represents the full range of grammatical structures produced by these children. As well as providing the first published overview of the ac quisition of Persian syntax and morphology the profile also constitute s an outline description of contemporary spoken Persian, a pro-drop, i nflectional and mostly verb-final language which has been very little studied. In addition, the P-LARSP profile is also the first formal pro cedure devised for assessing language impairment in Persian, and can b e used to compare the language of different children as well as the sa me child's language at different stages of development.