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Smith, Allan B.; Hall, Nancy E.; Tan, Xiaomei; Farrell, Katharine – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Articulation rate, speaking rate, as well as the duration and location of pauses, were analysed in 10 children with specific language impairment (SLI) and a comparison group of seven younger children producing utterances of similar lengths. Children with SLI were significantly slower in articulation rate, but not speaking rate or pausing time,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Articulation (Speech), Matched Groups
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Vorster, Jan – Language Sciences, 1988
Longitudinal studies of the application of a paraphrasing model to 18- to 28-month-olds indicated that mean length of utterance was significantly correlated with realized and paraphrased frequencies of several linguistic items in the subjects' corpora. The model was productive for examining children's corpora of speech and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Oral Language
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Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika – Child Development, 1991
Working class and upper-middle class mothers were videotaped interacting with their toddlers in four settings. Samples of the mothers' adult-directed speech were also collected. Observed were social class differences in the mothers' child-directed speech and some parallel differences in the mothers' adult-directed speech. This may reflect more…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Acquisition, Mother Attitudes, Mothers