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Speech Rate of Children with Developmental Language Disorder in a Narrative Context
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Georgios P. Georgiou; Constantina Panteli; Elena Theodorou – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2025
This study investigates the speech rate of Cypriot Greek-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) as well as the effect of age and gender. The participants were 16 children with DLD ages 4 years 11 months to 8 years 1 month and 22 children with typical language development (TLD) ages 4 years 5 months to 8 years 7 months. Both…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Fluency, Child Language, Developmental Disabilities
The Effects of Discourse Support on the Organization and Production of Children's Utterances.
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Streim, 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
De l'Apprentissage d'une Langue Etrangere...a l'Acquisition de la Lanque Maternelle (From Learning a Foreign Language to the Mastery of the Mother Tongue).
Raillard, Sabine – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Focuses on factors influencing the mastery of a foreign language and one's native tongue. Both the child-mother relationship and the teacher-student relationship greatly influence the desire and propensity of an individual to acquire fluency in the language being taught. To learn to speak signifies a wish to use a language and become immersed in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Elementary Education