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Measurement of Communicative Intentions in Normally Developing Children during Structured and Unstructured Contexts.
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Wetherby, Amy M.; Rodriguez, Gary P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Communication samples were collected from 15 normally developing children (ages 11-27 months) during the prelinguistic, single-word, and multiword stages, using both structured and unstructured contexts. Significantly more requests were used during the structured context, but no significant difference was found between the numbers of comments used…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Language Acquisition, Language Tests
Lexical Constraints on Syntactic Acquisition.
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Ard, Josh; Gass, Susan M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Data from responses to a grammaticality judgement test by 26 learners of English as a second language at two proficiency levels were used to investigate syntactic acquisition. Four syntactic structures were examined. Results suggest that less proficient subjects use syntactic strategies, while more proficient learners use semantic-based…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammatical Acceptability, Higher Education, Interlanguage