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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"language sample"”.
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Language sample analysis for Spanish speakers
… purpose of this project was to develop a Spanish language sample analysis (LSA) scoring procedure for English-Spanish bilinguals used to guide clinicians in developing language goals and monitoring progress on those goals. A Spanish LSA procedure was created and was tested on 20 typically …
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Scoring Sentences Developmentally: An Analog of Developmental Sentence Scoring
… 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 existing measures. Eighty samples from three corpora …
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Use of Oral Language General Outcome Measures to Describe Children According to Language Status
… 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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Easily Administered Recognition of Linguistically-Handicapped Youngsters
… typically used to screen children for speech, language and hearing have not been effective with this age group. This is partially due to the limited contacts they have with these children and the environmental limitations for eliciting an adequate speech and language sample (Behrens, 1978; …
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Comparing Differences in Expressive Language Quantity and Quality between School-Aged Children Playing with Traditional and Electronic Toys
… This preliminary 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. …
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COGNITION, MODALITY, AND LANGUAGE IN HEALTHY YOUNG ADULTS
Measures drawn from language samples (e.g., discourse measures) are used in clinical and research settings as a functional measure of language and cognitive abilities. In narrative elicitation tasks, discourse measures reliably vary by the type of prompt used to collect a language sample. …
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College Students' Use of Genderlect
… was accomplished by collecting, a written language sample from each of 45 male and 50 female subjects. The subjects were shown a series of eight soundless vignettes and asked to respond to two oral questions. The nouns collected from written subject responses were analyzed for total number …
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Social Outcomes of Students with Language Impairment: An Eight-Year Follow-up Study
This study re-examined the language and social skills of four females with language impairment who were initially studied eight years ago (Brinton, Fujiki, Montague, & Hanton, 2000; Fujiki, Brinton, Isaacson, & Summers, 2001). Language measures included the Clinical Evaluation of Language …
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Natural language interface to relational database: a simplified customization approach
Natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDB) allow end-users with no knowledge of a formal language like SQL to query databases. One of the main open problems currently investigated is the development of NLIDB systems that are easily portable across several domains. The present study focuses on …
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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
… 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 development process are important to …
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Accuracy of Automated Developmental Sentence Scoring Software
… 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 yield valid and reliable results. A recent study by Sagae, Lavie, and MacWhinney (2005) proposed a new method for analyzing the …
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English syllable confusion and imitation in Korean bilingual and monolingual children and adults
… in bilinguals learning English as a second language (L2) and in monolinguals learning English as a foreign language (FL); (b) which English phonemes on the NSIT were more challenging for bilinguals and monolinguals to produce; (c) whether perception on the NSCM task is related to production …
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Building Speech-Driven Assessment Tools for Afrikaans and isiXhosa Children
… for effective interventions. However, current language assessment tools are not designed for local languages, require trained administrators and lack the scalability needed for widespread screening in resource-constrained settings. We address this challenge by developing automated, …
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Classroom practices being employed by teachers of english to teach grammar in grade 11: a case of Chongwe district, Zambia.
… grade eleven teachers and learners of English language. Sample was picked purposively using criterion sampling technique. The sample involved 3 Heads of Department for Literature and Languages, 7 English language subject teachers and 15 grade 11 learners of English language. The study also …
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Classroom practices being employed by teachers of english to teach grammar in grade 11: a case of Chongwe district, Zambia.
… grade eleven teachers and learners of English language. Sample was picked purposively using criterion sampling technique. The sample involved 3 Heads of Department for Literature and Languages, 7 English language subject teachers and 15 grade 11 learners of English language. The study also …
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Reciprocal influences of caregiver language facilitation strategies and child characteristics on caregiver-child interactions
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms