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Peer reviewedValian, Virginia; Eisenberg, Zena – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Examines the spontaneous speech of Portuguese-speaking two-year olds in natural conversation with Portuguese-speaking adults. The children were separated into three groups based on Mean Length of Utterance in Words (MLUW). The children in the highest-MLUW group almost perfectly matched the adult speakers on every measure. (37 references)…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
