“…Regarding clinical practice, the findings indicate that strategic scoring of the past tense probe (and the children's overt marking of past tense irregular items within this probe) is most useful for identifying children with SLI in AAE and SWE. These finding are consistent with others who have identified past tense marking (either regular, irregular, or both) as diagnostically useful in SLI studies of children learning GAE, AAE, SWE, and English as a second language (e.g., Blom & Paradis, 2013;Jacobson & Livert, 2010;Jacobson & Schwartz, 2005;Oetting & Garrity, 2006;Oetting & Horohov, 1997;Rice, Wexler, Marquis, & Hershberger, 2000;Seymour et al, 1998;Weiler, Schuele, Feldman, & Krimm, 2018;Werfel, Hendricks, & Schuele, 2017; see also Krok & Leonard, 2015). Unfortunately, even with strategic scoring, the classification accuracies of the probes, including the past tense probe, were lower in AAE than in SWE and lower than 90% with the dialects combined and separated.…”