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Process Density Index (PDI) Scores in Typically Developing Children between 3;0 to 7;0 Years of Age: Evidence from Dravidian Tulu
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John, Sunila; Veena, Kadiyali D.; Nelson, Hanna; Aithal, Venkataraja Udupi; Patil, Rekha; Rajashekhar, Bellur – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
Various speech metrics have been developed to assess and monitor phonological development in young children. Process Density Index (PDI) is one such measure employed to determine the severity of phonological errors and speech intelligibility. The present study explored the utility of PDI as a measure of phonological development in 756…
Descriptors: Phonology, Scores, Intelligibility, Child Language
Mean Length of Utterance among Mandarin-Speaking Children with and without DLD
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Wu, Shang-Yu – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
This study explored the differences in mean length of utterance (MLU) and mean length of the five longest utterances (MLU5) between 5-6-year-old Mandarin-speaking children, and between typically developing children and children with developmental language disorders (DLD). Eighty-nine typically developing children and 35 children with a DLD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Mandarin Chinese, Child Language
What's Happening? And Other Questions Obligating Complete Sentences as Responses
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Jean-Baptiste, Rachel; Klein, Harriet B.; Brates, Danielle; Moses, Nelson – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2018
This study was designed to examine the strength of question types to obligate complete responses from children, and the effect of age and play context. Participants were typically developing children (mean ages 2;8, 3;4 and 4;7), who engaged in play with three speech-language pathologists in play contexts. Questions posed to the children were…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Statistical Analysis, Responses