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Direct linkMinkyung Cho; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Grantee Submission, 2024
Examining the dimensionality of oral discourse language skills in early childhood is crucial in informing theories of language and literacy development. This study examined the factor structure of linguistic and discourse features in oral text production for second graders. A total of 330 English-speaking second graders (M[subscript age] = 7.33,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Skills, Factor Structure
Minkyung Cho; Young-Suk Grace Kim – First Language, 2024
Examining the dimensionality of oral discourse language skills in early childhood is crucial in informing theories of language and literacy development. This study examined the factor structure of linguistic and discourse features in oral text production for second graders. A total of 330 English-speaking second graders (M[subscript age]= 7.33,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Skills, Factor Structure
Pauline Frizelle; Ana Oliveira-Buckley; Tricia Biancone; Jorge Oliveira; Paul Fletcher; Dorothy V. M. Bishop; Cristina McKean – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Introduction: The present study investigated English-speaking 5-9 year olds' (n = 600, normative sample) comprehension of relative, adverbial and complement clauses using the Test of Complex Syntax-Electronic (TECS-E), an online interactive assessment. with strong test-retest reliability, concurrent validity and internal consistency. Method: Using…
Descriptors: Syntax, Child Language, Young Children, Language Tests
Hao, Ying; Bedore, Lisa; Sheng, Li; Zhou, Peng; Zheng, Li – First Language, 2021
Mandarin classifiers are a complex system, but little is known about how Mandarin-speaking children manage to learn the system. Based on the extant literature, we explored potential factors influencing the comprehension and production of Mandarin shape classifiers, including classifier-based semantic categorization and errors pertaining to the…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Child Language
Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa; Castilla-Earls, Anny Patricia; Brunner, Jerry – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: This study explores the hypothesis that vocabulary growth can have 2 types of effects in morphosyntactic development. One is a general effect, where vocabulary growth globally determines utterance complexity, defined in terms of sentence length and rates of subordination. There are also specific effects, where vocabulary size has a…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Dictionaries, Monolingualism, Sentences
Download full textDauzat, Samuel Varner – 1968
The relationship between oral reading ability and the use of structure (function) words was examined in a dissertation study which hypothesized that the use of structure words in verbal discourse would be greater in children who have no difficulty in oral reading than in children who experience difficulty. Structure words were identified as those…
Descriptors: Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words, Grade 4
