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Download full textRice, Mabel L.; Haight, Patti L. – 1985
Dialogue from 30-minute samples from "Sesame Street" and "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" was coded for grammar, content, and discourse. Grammatical analysis used the LINGQUEST computer-assisted language assessment program (Mordecai, Palen, and Palmer 1982). Content coding was based on categories developed by Rice (1984) and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedStreim, Nancy W.; Chapman, Robin S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
When lexical availability was manipulated through discourse support and word frequency for 40 target nouns, measurement of effects on length, complexity, order of mention, and fluency of 4- to 8-year-olds' utterances showed that the number and length of responses containing the target word varied with age, word frequency, and discourse support…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition
