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A Sweet Tutorial to the SUGAR Method of Language Sampling
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Pavelko, Stacey L.; Owens, Robert E., Jr. – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023
Purpose: The purposes of this tutorial are (a) to describe a method of language sample analysis (LSA) referred to as SUGAR (Sampling Utterances and Grammatical Analysis Revised) and (b) to offer step-by-step instructions detailing how to collect, transcribe, analyze, and interpret the results of a SUGAR language sample. Method: The tutorial begins…
Descriptors: Sampling, Language Tests, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Student Perspectives on Learning Language Sample Analysis Using LENA
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Flippin, Michelle – Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders, 2023
Language sample analysis (LSA) is valuable clinical tool and an important component of comprehensive language assessment. However, LSA is underutilized in real-world practice. SLPs have identified time constraints, insufficient training, and lack of confidence in LSA skills as barriers to regular LSA implementation. Communication science and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Tests, Sampling, Language Impairments
Estimating the Latent Number of Types in Growing Corpora with Reduced Cost-Accuracy Trade-Off
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Hidaka, Shohei – Journal of Child Language, 2016
The number of unique words in children's speech is one of most basic statistics indicating their language development. We may, however, face difficulties when trying to accurately evaluate the number of unique words in a child's growing corpus over time with a limited sample size. This study proposes a novel technique to estimate the latent number…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Accuracy
Comparing Generativist and Constructivist Accounts of the Use of the Past Tense Form in Early Child Japanese
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Tatsumi, Tomoko; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
The present study investigated children's early use of verb inflection in Japanese by comparing a generativist account, which predicts that the past tense will have a special default-like status for the child during the early stages, with a constructivist input-driven account, which assumes that children's acquisition and use of inflectional forms…
Descriptors: Japanese, Child Language, Generative Grammar, Constructivism (Learning)
"Ganchulinas" and "Rainbowli" Colors: Young Multilingual Children Play with Language in Head Start Classroom
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Axelrod, Ysaaca – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to study the language development of 4-year-old emergent bilinguals in a bilingual (Spanish/English) Head Start classroom with flexible language practices. Data were collected throughout the 10-month school year by visiting the classroom 2-3 times per week. Data include: field notes (observations and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Child Language, Emergent Literacy
Two-Year-Olds' Sensitivity to Inflectional Plural Morphology: Allomorphic Effects
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Davies, Benjamin; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Many English-speaking children use plural nominal forms in spontaneous speech before the age of two, and display some understanding of plural inflection in production tasks. However, results from an intermodal preferential study suggested a lack of "comprehension" of nominal plural morphology at 24 months of age (Kouider, Halberda, Wood,…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, English, Morphology (Languages)