Abstract
ABSTRACTA new method for evaluating the grammatical complexity of preschool natural language corpora is introduced. In the Index of Productive Syntax, occurrences of 56 syntactic and morphological forms are counted, yielding a total score and subscores for noun phrases, verb phrases, questions/negations, and sentence structures. Development of the index and analyses of its reliability and age-sensitivity when applied to language samples of 2- to 4-year-olds are described. Some advantages and limitations of the index as a research and clinical instrument are also discussed.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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