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Ratner, Nan Bernstein; MacWhinney, Brian – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023
Background: We discuss a free software system (Computerized Language Analysis [CLAN]) that can enable fast, thorough, and informative language sample analysis (LSA). Method: We describe methods for eliciting, transcribing, analyzing, and interpreting language samples. Using a hypothetical child speaker, we illustrate use KidEval to generate a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Goal Orientation, Computational Linguistics, Syntax
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Owens, Robert E.; Pavelko, Stacey L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to document whether mean length of utterance[subscript SUGAR] (MLU[subscript S]), total number of words (TNW), clauses per sentence (CPS), and/or words per sentence (WPS) demonstrated age-related changes in children with typically developing language, aged 7;0-10;11 (years;months). Method: Participants were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Sentences, Grammar, Language Usage
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Jing Sun; Laura M. Justice; Ye Shen; Hui Jiang; Hugo Gonzalez Villasanti; Mary Beth Schmitt – Grantee Submission, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the measurement structure of the linguistic features of speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) talk during business-as-usual therapy sessions in the public schools, and to test the longitudinal stability of a theorized dimensional structure consisting of quantity, grammatical complexity, and lexical…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Therapy, Longitudinal Studies
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Hakansson, Gisela – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Joanne Paradis' Keynote Article on bilingualism and specific language impairment (SLI) is an impressive overview of research in language acquisition and language impairment. Studying different populations is crucial both for theorizing about language acquisition mechanisms, and for practical purposes of diagnosing and supporting children with…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition
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Gillam, Sandra Laing; Gillam, Ronald B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: The results of recent survey studies suggest that speech-language pathologists base most of their clinical decisions on information they were taught during their graduate programs, their clinical experience, and the opinions of colleagues (T. Wolf & J. Balderson, 2005; R. Zipoli & M. Kennedy, 2005). This is contrary to the principles of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Speech Language Pathology, Decision Making, Clinical Experience
Kamhi, Alan G., Ed.; And Others – 1996
The collection of papers on language development and African-American children includes: "The Challenges of Conducting Language Research with African American Children" (Holly K. Craig); "Issues in Recruiting African American Participants for Research" (Joyce L. Harris); "Issues in Assessing the Language Abilities of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Black Youth, Child Development
Audette, Julie, Ed.; And Others – 1995
Papers (entirely in French) presented at the conference on linguistics include these topics: language used in the legislature of New Brunswick; cohesion in the text of Arabic-speaking language learners; automatic adverb recognition; logic of machine translation in teaching revision; expansion in physics texts; discourse analysis and the syntax of…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Advertising, Arabic, Brain Hemisphere Functions