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An Interactive Modeling Technique for Acquisition of Communication Skills: Separation of "Labeling" and "Requesting" in a Psittacine Subject.

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Pepperberg, Irene M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988

An African gray parrot, taught to employ the vocalization "want" before an object label so as to discriminate functional labeling from requesting, subsequently generalized "want" to novel situations. The findings of the study indicate that the training procedure might be applicable to intervention programs for humans with…

Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Correlation

Patterns in Verb Use by Preschoolers with Normal Language and Specific Language Impairment.

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Kelly, Donna J. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997

Preschoolers with specific language impairment (SLIs) and two groups of linguistically normally developing children described motion and change-of-state scenes while viewing a video, and patterns of verb use were analyzed. Although SLIs relied heavily on general all-purpose verbs, normally developing children used them more. SLIs made more verb…

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis