Thomas Roeper

I am a lingjuist who works primarily in child language and theoretical

morphology. I have been working for 30 years on this topic and it has

led to work in Communication Disorders and a test for disorders called

DELV which specializes in identifying speakers of African American

English who also have disorders.

MOre about me: I have been involved in the Civil Rights movement,

in anti-war activities from the war in Vietnam to the war in Irag.

My book, the Prism of Grammar, seeks to connect the logic of

generative gramamr with humanistic ideas about human creativity and

social creativity, along with giving parents a sense of the special

dignity of children that emerges from their language.

I am always glad to hear anecdotes and quotations about children

or feedback on how the explorations that I have proposed go.

My book has been not only used by parents but by teachers from

7th grade to graduate students in linguistics. So I hope it has

broad appeal