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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"language samples"”.
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Automated Grammatical Analysis of Language Samples from Spanish-Speaking Children Learning English
… and accurate for both English and Spanish child language, but there has been no research done regarding its accuracy with bilingual children. The present study examined this topic using English and Spanish language samples taken from 254 children living in the United States. The subjects included …
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Automated Grammatical Tagging of Language Samples from Children with and without Language Impairment
… 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 95%) …
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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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Child acquisition of referring expressions
… 12 four-year-old, and 20 five-year-old children. Language samples were elicited using seven tasks of increasing difficulty. The referring expressions produced for each task were categorized based on their usage, and then analyzed for similarities and differences in the frequencies and types of …
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The Effects of the Assistive Technology Tool, Picture Sentence Key on the Expressive Language Skills in Children with Disabilities
… if the amount and quality of expressive language in children with disabilities increase or decrease as a result of assistive technology, (focused on hardware and software) that is individualized to the needs of each child. To obtain information about this topic, the researcher reviewed …
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Accuracy of Automated Developmental Sentence Scoring Software
… method for analyzing the accuracy of automated language analysis programs. This method was used in addition to previously established methods to analyze the accuracy of a new automated DSS program, entitled DSSA (Channell, 2006). Previously collected language samples from 118 children between …
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The Relationships Between Auditory Processing, Oral Language and Reading in a Group of Third-Grade Children
… and 25 poor readers in the third grade: oral language as 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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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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The impact of prematurity on language skills at school age
… Reading Project and included discourse-level language samples collected at three points in time, each a year apart. In addition, standardized test results were obtained for IQ, digit span, and global language ability. The language samples were analyzed to yield a number of semantic and …
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Expressive language development in twins versus singletons at early school age
… and singletons differed in their expressive language development at school age. Comparisons focused on language samples and formalized vocabulary assessments gathered from 28 twins and 28 singletons within the Western Reserve Reading Project; the two groups were matched on age, gender, and …
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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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Developmental patterns of Spanish grammatical morphemes and mean length of utterance in bilingual children
… in words (MLUw) data was collected from language samples. The average percent accuracy of grammatical morphemes was calculated and analyzed as a function of MLUw in Spanish. Results show that the percentage of accurately produced morphemes has a general upward trend as MLUw increases. …
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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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AN ANALYSIS OF CODE SWITCHING EVENTS IN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
Code-switching (CS) patterns were investigated in language samples of 14 typically-developing Spanish-English bilingual preschool-aged children. CS occurred primarily when the children spoke in Spanish. We investigated code-switched events, vocabulary measures, and disfluencies to better understand …
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Promoting Speech and Vocabulary Development through Specialized Storybooks in Children with and without Cleft Palate.
… response to storybooks embedded with specialized language prompts and speech recasts. Six children received intervention, 3 with cleft palate (CLP), displaying speech-language delays, and 3 with nonclefts, each 12-24 months of age. A multiple baseline design across behaviors was implemented by a …
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Joint Engagement Behaviors in Preschoolers with Language Impairment
… to the sample population of preschoolers with language impairment (LI) by exploring patterns of joint engagement behaviors in this population. A second question asked if joint engagement behaviors were significantly related to performance on language measures. Following referral from local …
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Narratives by Six Year Old and Nine Year Old Boys: Brute: Institutional, and Non-Institutional Mental Facts
… of these results as related to spontaneous language samples, appropriate language sampling size, and the syntagmaticparadigmatic shift.</p>
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Indicators of Linguistic Processing Constraints in the Narratives of Individuals with High-Functioning Autism
… The purpose of this study was to compare the language production of adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) to that of age and Verbal IQ-matched controls with respect to speech disruptions and formulaic expressions, features which indicate linguistic processing challenges. Standard language …
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Understanding Contributors to Input Informativeness for Tense Marking: Overlap among English Typology, Parent-Toddler Interaction Style, and Register
… The participants were 15 parent-toddler dyads. Language samples were collected when the children were 21 months of age. Verbs in child-directed speech were coded for linguistic form (e.g., imperative, modal, copula, etc.). The communicative function of utterances and the form of questions …
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One Of A Kind Grammar: The Role Of Sentence Diversity In Children's Grammatical Development
… dyads participated in the study. Spontaneous language samples were collected from parents when children were 21 months of age and from children at 30 months of age. These samples were coded for unique subject-verb combinations (USV), the sentence diversity measure. At 36 months of age, the …
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