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Stalling for Time: Stall, Revision, and Stuttering-Like Disfluencies Reflect Language Factors in the Speech of Young Children
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Garbarino, Julianne; Bernstein Ratner, Nan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Disfluencies can be classified as stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) or typical disfluencies (TDs). Dividing TDs further, stalls (fillers and repetitions) are thought to be prospective, occurring due to planning glitches, and revisions (word and phrase revisions, word fragments) are thought to be retrospective, occurring when a speaker…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Stuttering, Speech Impairments, Preschool Children
Mean Length of Utterance in Czech Toddlers: Validity Estimates and Comparison of Words, Morphemes, and Syllables
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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
Morphosyntactic Peculiarities of the Speech of Children with Down's Syndrome
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Tchilaia, Ketevani – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
The article, "morphosyntactic peculiarities of the speech of children with Down's syndrome", treats, important aspects of the study of two adjacent branches of linguistics, namely, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics-Language development of the child accompanied by speech disorders, on the other hand, those morphosyntactic features…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Speech Communication, Down Syndrome
Grammaticality Differences between Spanish-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment and Their Typically Developing Peers
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Jackson-Maldonado, Donna; Maldonado, Ricardo – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: A limited number of studies have analyzed grammaticality in monolingual Spanish-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI). Most of the available data are based on bilingual speakers. Aims: To extend previous studies by doing a more detailed analysis of grammatical types in monolingual Spanish-speakers with and without…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish Speaking, Children, Foreign Countries
Simultaneous Treatment of Grammatical and Speech-Comprehensibility Deficits in Children with Down Syndrome
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Camarata, Stephen; Yoder, Paul; Camarata, Mary – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2006
Children with Down syndrome often display speech-comprehensibility and grammatical deficits beyond what would be predicted based upon general mental age. Historically, speech-comprehensibility has often been treated using traditional articulation therapy and oral-motor training so there may be little or no coordination of grammatical and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Intervention, Grammar, Down Syndrome
Jumping Around and Leaving Things Out: A Profile of the Narrative Abilities of Children with Specific Language Impairment.
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Miranda, Elisabeth A.; McCabe, Allysa; Bliss, Lynn S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
Investigates the discourse coherence of school-aged children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Children with SLI were found to be significantly impaired in the areas of topic maintenance, event sequencing, explicitness, conjunctive cohesion, and fluency. Theoretical and clinical implications of the results are discussed. (Author/ER)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grade 3, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Evaluating Language. Papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (Essex, England, United Kingdom, September 1992).
Graddol, David, Ed.; Swann, Joan, Ed. – 1994
Papers from a British conference on applied linguistics address various aspects of evaluation and language. Articles include: "Grammar and Language Impairment: Clinical Linguistics as Applied Linguistics" (Paul Fletcher); "Putting Our Practice Into Theory" (Deborah Cameron); "Applied Linguistics as Evaluation of Theory and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, College Students