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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Number of different words"”.
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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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Comparing Differences in Expressive Language Quantity and Quality between School-Aged Children Playing with Traditional and Electronic Toys
… study focuses on the expressive language of English-dominant, school-aged children playing with traditional and electronic toys. Method: Four English speaking children between the ages of 5;4 (year; month) and 8;9 were audio and video recorded during individual 20-minute sessions. Each …
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The Growth of Early Phonological and Lexical Development: A Longitudinal Investigation
… at 18 months were examined as a function of gender and maternal education. Significant differences were observed for all three of the outcome variables: number of different consonants, number of different words, and the percentage of vocalizations classified as lexical. Girls outperformed …
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CAF across proficiency levels and profiles: an investigation of ESL student writings in an English placement test
This study was an examination of the predictive value of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) across proficiency levels and profiles in second language writing. 150 ESL essays of international students registered at a North American university were analyzed using various CAF measures. Descriptive …
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A large-scale analysis of lexical diversity in children who stutter
This study compared lexical abilities in 99 pairs of children who stutter (CWS), ages 25 – 100 months and age-, gender-, and SES-matched children who do not stutter (CWNS) in spontaneous conversation and on standardized vocabulary tests. Correlations among lexical diversity measures and …
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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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Phonological Awareness Training in a Preschool Classroom of Typically Developing Children.
<p>The purpose of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of phonological awareness (PA) training with typically developing preschool children in a classroom setting. The PA training incorporated a range of PA skills and the training outcomes were assessed along a broad spectrum of PA …
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Treatment Efficacy of Combined Dialogic Reading and Scripting for a Child with Moderate to Severe Communication Impairment
… in increasing the semantic and syntactic skills of children with language impairments. This single-subject study evaluated the use of an intervention that incorporated elements of both of these approaches, using adapted books that included sequenced activities of daily living, to increase the use …
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The effectiveness of a brief home-based naturalistic language intervention on the spoken language abilities of children with autism in the Western Cape
… positive effect on cognitive and social outcomes of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) though very few NDBIs have been implemented in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Challenges in accessing evidence-based interventions for many families of children with ASD living in LMIC exists …
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Expressive language development in twins versus singletons at early school age
… 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 Vocabulary …
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Estimation problems in speech and natural language
This dissertation is a study of two problems on estimation in the areas of natural language and speech. In the first problem we revisit the classical problem of estimating the size of unseen elements which we study in the context of a regime that is characterized by a large number of rare events, …
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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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Le paragraphe oral en français L1, en suédois L1 et en français L2 : étude syntaxique, prosodique et discursive
This study examines the structure and the use of the speech paragraph (le paragraphe oral), as defined by Morel and Danon-Boileau 1998, in L1 French, in L1 Swedish and in the L2 French production of two advanced Swedish learners. The corpus examined consists of seven informal spontaneous …
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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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Uniformity of pronoun case errors in typical development: the association between children's first person and third person case errors in a longitudinal study
The purpose of this study was to determine if grammatical case is acquired as a unified system or if it is acquired in a piecemeal fashion. Case is a property of sentences that codes subjects and objects for their roles in sentences. In the course of typical English language acquisition, some …