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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"narrative task"”.
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The Marking of Ambiguous Referents By Language Delayed/Learning Disabled Adolescents in a Narrative Task
The ability to appropriately mark ambiguous referents was evaluated for 31 language-delayed and/or learning-disabled adolescents, and for 11 normally-achieving, normal language learning adolescents and preadolescents. Each subject was shown a series of 5 television cartoons and asked to narrate the …
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Influence of Examiner Dialect on a Bidialectal Speaker with Aphasia
… dialect on the quantity and quality of narrative discourse in a bidialectal African American with mild aphasia. We hypothesized that there may be a cognitive cost when responding to the examiner by code switching from African American English (AAE) to General American English (GAE) for …
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Stop production in Spanish-English bilingual children
… father). Participants completed a picture naming task and narrative task in both languages. The mother also completed a language survey to gauge the language use and attitudes in the home. The quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed for correlations between the production task results and …
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Reference and Representation in Down's Syndrome
… assessed, using a grammaticality judgement task, an imitation task, and a spontaneous speech sample. Results indicated that the production and comprehension of pronouns was found moderately difficult. The successful use of a pronoun depends on the ability to use a mental representation to …
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Investigating the role of an indigenised variety of English in the acquisitional and sociolinguistic contexts of the Malaysian ecology
… L1s. Findings from a grammaticality judgement task and narrative task revealed that although the Malaysian cohort behaved statistically differently from the L1-BritE control, the L1-MalE(+) groups outperformed the L1-Chinese and L1-Malay groups across the board. That said, the L1-Malay group …
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The Association between Reading Comprehension and Prerequisite Skills for Children in Poverty
… vocabulary, receptive and expressive language, narrative skills, cognitive ability and working memory.</p> <p>Children in this study performed significantly poorer than the standardization sample on all four language measures which included the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th edition, the …
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Tracing language variation in Spanish: A multidisciplinary approach
… perspective with the use of experimental tasks. Few studies on language variation have implemented a psycholinguistic methodology. Therefore, little is known about the way in which language variation is cognitively represented. In this dissertation, a group of monolingual native speakers …