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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Mean Length of Utterance"”.
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Developmental patterns of Spanish grammatical morphemes and mean length of utterance in bilingual children
The purpose of this analysis was to define norms for grammatical morpheme development in Spanish for Spanish-English bilingual children ages 4;0-7;6. This study uses secondary data analysis based on two existing datasets. Participants included 334 Spanish-English bilingual children that were …
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The Effects of a Multimodality Approach on Sentence Production using Response Elaboration Training with a Reading Component on Aphasic Patients.
<p>The effects of a multimodality treatment were investigated using a single subject experimental design across behaviors in two patients with different severity levels of Broca's aphasia. We hypothesized that Response Elaboration Training and an oral reading task would improve accuracy of sentence …
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Split-half Reliability of MLU and MLU2 in Two Methods of Utterance Segmentation
Concerns regarding Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) has led to adaptations of this method of analysis. A recent study by Johnston (2001) introduced an alternative to MLU called MLU2. The current study investigates the split-half reliability of MLU and MLU2 as well as another alternative, Median …
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Language Profiles and Narrative Skills in Subclinical Language Children: Implications for Early Screening
… language metrics obtained from oral narratives of first-grade subclinical children and compared them to those of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Specifically, we examined the mean length of utterance in words (MLUw), total number of different words (TNDW), moving average …
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Use of Oral Language General Outcome Measures to Describe Children According to Language Status
The purpose of the study was to determine if short language samples can effectively distinguish children with language impairments from those who are typically developing. Four elicitation methods (individual picture descriptions, multi-scene picture description, narrative, and interview) were …
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An analysis of maternal questions to young deaf children during storybook reading
An examination of the frequency and types of questions that five mothers used during storybook reading sessions with their three and four-year-old deaf daughters was conducted. Relationships between frequency and type of questions and child Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) measurements, between …
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Video modeling to enhance the conversation skills of preschool children who are at-risk for school failure
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the video-modeling method on language comprehension skills of preschoolers who are at-risk for school failure. The setting for this research was a preschool classroom in a low socioeconomic school district in southern New Jersey. Baseline …
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Expressive language development in twins versus singletons at early school age
… conversational interactions, were analyzed for mean length of utterance, number of different words, number of total words, and total number of conjunctions, all of which were converted to z-scores and averaged to form a Conversational Composite. Similarly, children’s scores on the Stanford Binet …
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Developmental expectations for child-like sentences
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to establish developmental sentence diversity expectations for children at 30 months of age. Two research questions were posed: (1) Is there a difference in the diversity of sentence subject types (i.e., first person singular, third person singular) at 30 …
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Perceptions about language development of isiXhosa-speaking primary caregivers of young children receiving speech-language therapy in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
… children provides support for the involvement of primary caregivers in their child’s language intervention (Kaiser, & Roberts, 2011; Roberts, & Kaiser, 2011). Research suggests that the perceptions of these caregivers regarding their child’s language development and their role in the language …
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Building Speech-Driven Assessment Tools for Afrikaans and isiXhosa Children
Illiteracy is a root cause of many socio-economic problems in South Africa. However, problems with reading often start before a child enters school. It is therefore essential to identify children with development problems early to allow for effective interventions. However, current language …
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Waves of Change: Longitudinal Growth Profiling of Bilingual (Spanish-English) Language Development
… the research literature supports the notion of language growth trajectories, primarily in monolingual English children, the shape and direction of English-language learners' (ELLs) language growth trajectories are largely unknown. The present study examined the shape of ELLs' language growth …
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Early Lexical and Grammatical Development of Xitsonga Spoken in Giyani, Limpopo Using the Adapted Xitsonga MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers Form A Preliminary Study
… limitation impacts on the early identification of children with language difficulties, essential for ensuring appropriate and timely support for such children and their families. The challenge of early identification is even more pronounced for children acquiring a minority language such as …
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Perceptual and acoustic features of speech in individuals with Down syndrome and their impact on speech intelligibility
… articulation, resonance, and prosody and number of methods can be used to evaluate these aspects. Perceptual analysis methods are frequently employed; however, their reliability has been called into question. Acoustic analysis methods can provide a more objective view of certain aspects of speech …
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Scoring Sentences Developmentally: An Analog of Developmental Sentence Scoring
A variety of tools have been developed to assist in the quantification and analysis of naturalistic language samples. In recent years, computer technology has been employed in language sample analysis. This study compares a new automated index, Scoring Sentences Developmentally (SSD), to two …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
This study investigated comprehension of complex syntax in Spanish, namely passive and relative clauses, by early English-Spanish bilinguals, also known as heritage language (HL) learners, and by second language (L2) learners. To contribute to current theoretical debates on the role of input and …