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Peer reviewedValian, Virginia – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines speech samples from six children aged 2 years to 2 years, 5 months, with Mean Lengths of Utterance ranging from 2.93 to 4.14, were examined for evidence of six syntactic categories: determiner, adjective, noun, noun phrase, preposition, and prepositional phrase. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Evaluation Criteria, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedPrater, Rex Joe; Swift, Roger Williams – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1982
To test D. Stampe's hypothesis about the development of phonological processes, 60 children (21 to 48 months old) were placed into groups based on mean length of utterance (MLU) and chronological age. MLU was found to be the best classification for describing the phonological processes. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Infants
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
