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Peer reviewedKlecan-Aker, Joan S.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1983
Describes a study that examines the pragmatic language functions used by school-age children during a structured dialog consisting of a question-answer paradigm. Develops a 10-category taxonomy to classify subjects' responses and finds the taxonomy to be effective in two ways: (1) the number of categories is sufficient, and (2) the interscorer…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition, Language Research
