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Cho, Sunghye; Nevler, Naomi; Shellikeri, Sanjana; Parjane, Natalia; Irwin, David J.; Ryant, Neville; Ash, Sharon; Cieri, Christopher; Liberman, Mark; Grossman, Murray – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examines the effect of age on language use with an automated analysis of digitized speech obtained from semistructured, narrative speech samples. Method: We examined the Cookie Theft picture descriptions produced by 37 older and 76 young healthy participants. Using modern natural language processing and automatic speech…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Language Usage
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Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Hwang, Jin Kyoung; Oh, Min Hyun; Pokowitz, Elena Lauren – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Elementary-age dual language learners (DLLs) from Spanish-speaking homes in the United States are often characterized as at risk for low vocabulary in both Spanish and English. This longitudinal study examined conceptually scored receptive and expressive vocabulary development among DLLs from Spanish-speaking, low-income homes and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary School Students, Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking
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Fey, Marc E.; Leonard, Laurence B.; Bredin-Oja, Shelley L.; Deevy, Patricia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Our purpose was to test the competing sources of input (CSI) hypothesis by evaluating an intervention based on its principles. This hypothesis proposes that children's use of main verbs without tense is the result of their treating certain sentence types in the input (e.g., "Was 'she laughing'?") as models for declaratives…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Hypothesis Testing, Intervention, Form Classes (Languages)