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Peer reviewedKohn, Susan E.; Cragnolio, Ana – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
This study, using the Boston Naming Test, explores the notion that learned associations based on lexical co-occurrence probability influence sentence planning and may contribute to the ability of aphasic speakers to produce well-formed sentences. The study finds that use of lexical associates can facilitate sentence planning for adult aphasic…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedFujiki, Martin; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
A study examined the manner in which 10 specifically language-impaired children and their linguistically normal chronological age-matched peers repaired overlapping speech. Conversational samples from each student were elicited by an adult examiner. (26 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Handicaps, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedDe Weirdt, Willy – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Probes the relation between speech perception and reading ability of children who were good or poor readers. Results indicate that reading-related perception differences were especially marked in a comparison of actual and predicted discrimination scores. Identification slope and phoneme boundary differences between reader groups were found as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Language Patterns, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedBartolucci, Giampiero; Fine, Jonathan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Analysis of psychiatric patients' utterances during an interview indicated that the percentage of unclear cohesive ties was significantly higher among schizophrenics than in a group of patients with mixed diagnoses (mostly affective disorders). Cohesive weakness was a more frequent characteristic of the language of schizophrenic speakers.…
Descriptors: Coherence, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedThomas, Margaret – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Reviews research on first- (L1) and second-language (L2) acquisition of English articles, and adds to this literature a study f a(n), the, and the null article in the speech of (n=30) second-language learners. Both differences and similarities emerge between the L1 and L2 patterns of acquisition. (31 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Determiners (Languages), English, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedSmith, Bruce L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Examination of the use of short "tongue-twister" phrases in eliciting spontaneous slips of the tongue in five year olds indicated that the technique was a feasible and beneficial method for collecting spoonerism data from children. (24 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns
Peer reviewedEvans, Mary Ann – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Observation of reticent (N=7) and normal talkative (N=7) kindergarten students with their teachers during classroom "sharing time" indicated that reticent children engaged in less complex speech than their peers, speaking more often about objects in the "here and now," speaking about one topic at a turn, and speaking in shorter…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Kindergarten
