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Assessment and Therapy Goal Planning Using Free Computerized Language Analysis Software
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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
Is Putting SUGAR (Sampling Utterances of Grammatical Analysis Revised) into Language Sample Analysis a Good Thing? A Response to Pavelko and Owens (2017)
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Guo, Ling-Yu; Eisenberg, Sarita; Bernstein Ratner, Nan; MacWhinney, Brian – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: In this letter, the authors respond to Pavelko and Owens' (2017) newly advanced set of procedures for language sample analysis: Sampling Utterances and Grammatical Analysis Revised (SUGAR). Method: The authors contrast some of the new guidelines for transcription, morpheme segmentation, and language sample elicitation in SUGAR with…
Descriptors: Sampling, Grammar, Transcripts (Written Records), Morphemes
Implicit and Explicit Measures of Sensitivity to Violations in Second Language Grammar: An Event-Related Potential Investigation
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Tokowicz, Natasha; MacWhinney, Brian – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate the contributions of explicit and implicit processes during second language (L2) sentence comprehension. We used a L2 grammaticality judgment task (GJT) to test 20 native English speakers enrolled in the first four semesters of Spanish while recording both accuracy and ERP data. Because…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Grammar, Task Analysis