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Nina Crespo Allende; Maria Luisa Silva; Jeannette Sepúlveda Toro; Carola Alvarado Barra – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
This study compares the use of reporting speech devices (RS) in narrative retells by Spanish-speaking children with (and without) Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). We assessed 50 7-year-old children (25 with DLD and 25 with TD) and analyzed the narrative retells' length and the RS forms introduced by children. In addition, we considered the…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Young Children, Spanish Speaking
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Klára Matiasovitsová; Petra Cechová; Jakub Sláma; Kamila Homolková; Filip Smolík – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: We examined the properties of mean length of utterance (MLU) in Czech, a morphologically complex Slavic language. We compared the scores of MLU calculated in different units and based on different sample lengths and assessed its validity against another transcript and test-based measures. Method: One hundred nine children were recorded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Slavic Languages, Morphemes