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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Developmental Sentence Scoring"”.
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Accuracy of Automated Developmental Sentence Scoring Software
<p>Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS; Lee 1974) is a well established, structured method for analyzing a child's expressive syntax within the context of a conversational speech sample. Automated DSS programs may increase efficiency of DSS analysis; however the program must be accurate in order to …
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Scoring Sentences Developmentally: An Analog of Developmental Sentence Scoring
… This study compares a new automated index, Scoring Sentences Developmentally (SSD), to two existing measures. Eighty samples from three corpora were manually analyzed using DSS and MLU and the processed by the automated software. Results show all three indices to be highly correlated, with …
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The Relationships Between Auditory Processing, Oral Language and Reading in a Group of Third-Grade Children
… indicated by analysis of language samples using Developmental Sentence Scoring procedures, and auditory processing as indicated by the Flowers-Costello Tests of Central Auditory Abilities.
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Accuracy of Automated Analysis of Language Samples from Persons with Deafness or Hearing Impairment
Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) and the Language Assessment, Remediation, and Screening Procedure (LARSP) are among the more common analyses for syntax and morphology, and automated versions of these analyses have been shown to be effective. This study measured the accuracy of automated DSS …
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The Effects of Language Variation and Age on Measures of Narrative Microstructure
… (DVAR) being the dependent variable and Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS; Lee & Canter, 1971) and Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn; Scarborough, 1990) being the independent variable. Findings indicated that age predicted DSS scores, as did language variation. Age, and language …
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Automated Grammatical Tagging of Language Samples from Children with and without Language Impairment
Grammatical classification ("tagging") of words in language samples is a component of syntactic analysis for both clinical and research purposes. Previous studies have shown that probability-based software can be used to tag samples from adults and typically-developing children with high (about …