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Effects of Sampling Context on the Expressive Language of Children and Adolescents with Mental Retardation.

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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1995

Conversational and narrative language samples were elicited from 16 school-age individuals with mental retardation and 16 typically developing children matched for mental age. Analysis demonstrated that both groups produced more syntactically complex language during narration, whereas they were more talkative during conversation. Results support…

Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education