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Burrows, Lauren; Goldstein, Brian A. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Phonological acquisition traditionally has been measured using constructs that focus on segments rather than the whole words. Findings from recent research have suggested whole-word productions be evaluated using measures such as phonological mean length of utterance (pMLU) and the proportion of whole-word proximity (PWP). These measures have been…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, English
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Johnston, Judith R.; Kamhi, Alan G. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1984
Investigated the hypotheses that language-impaired children produce fewer logical propositions per utterance and evidence less control of formal syntactic markers. Matched for mean length of utterance, language samples from 10 language-impaired children approximately five years of age and 10 normal children about three years of age were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Language Handicaps, Language Research