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Direct linkWhite, Katherine S.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Deglint, Taylor; Silva, Janel – First Language, 2020
Disfluencies, such as 'um' or 'uh', can cause adults to attribute uncertainty to speakers, but may also facilitate speech processing. To understand how these different functions affect children's learning, we asked whether (dis)fluency affects children's decision to select information from speakers (an explicit behavior) and their learning of…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Puppetry
Allen, Shanley E. M.; Dench, Catherine – First Language, 2015
Although virtually all Inuit children in eastern Arctic Canada learn Inuktitut as their native language, there is a critical lack of tools to assess their level of language ability. This article investigates how mean length of utterance (MLU), a widely-used assessment measure in English and other languages, can be best applied in Inuktitut. The…
Descriptors: Eskimo Aleut Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Native Language
