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Spoken Language Production in Young Adults: Examining Syntactic Complexity
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Nippold, Marilyn A.; Frantz-Kaspar, Megan W.; Vigeland, Laura M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: In this study, we examined syntactic complexity in the spoken language samples of young adults. Its purpose was to contribute to the expanding knowledge base in later language development and to begin building a normative database of language samples that potentially could be used to evaluate young adults with known or suspected language…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Syntax, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Interviews
Developing Question Constructions in Japanese as a First Language: The Roles of Type of Referent and Parental Input
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Uno, Mariko – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The present dissertation extracted 17,291 questions from Aki, Ryo, and Tai and their mother's spontaneously produced speech data available in the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000; Oshima-Takane & MacWhinney, 1998). The children's age ranged from 1;3 to 3;0. Their questions were coded for (1) yes/no questions that include a sentence-final…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Parent Child Relationship
Referential Choice in Narratives of Mandarin-Speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Form, Function, and Adequacy
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Sah, Wen-hui – First Language, 2018
This study investigates the referential choice of Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The data consist of narratives from 16 children with ASD and 16 typically-developing (TD) children. The narratives were elicited using the wordless picture book "Frog, where are you?" Participants' referential expressions…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Classification, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders