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Measurement of Communicative Intentions in Normally Developing Children during Structured and Unstructured Contexts.
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Wetherby, Amy M.; Rodriguez, Gary P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Communication samples were collected from 15 normally developing children (ages 11-27 months) during the prelinguistic, single-word, and multiword stages, using both structured and unstructured contexts. Significantly more requests were used during the structured context, but no significant difference was found between the numbers of comments used…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Language Acquisition, Language Tests
Measurement of Narrative Discourse Ability in Children with Language Disorders.
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Liles, Betty Z.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Narratives from three studies were analyzed using seven variables hypothesized to measure a variety of language abilities used in narrative production. Results indicated that the variables represented global organization of content, and within- and across-sentence structure. Variables representing sentence structure were most effective as…
Descriptors: Children, Context Effect, Factor Analysis, Language Impairments
Effects of Sampling Context on the Expressive Language of Children and Adolescents with Mental Retardation.
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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1995
Conversational and narrative language samples were elicited from 16 school-age individuals with mental retardation and 16 typically developing children matched for mental age. Analysis demonstrated that both groups produced more syntactically complex language during narration, whereas they were more talkative during conversation. Results support…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education