Author:
Atkins Carolyn Peluso,Cartwright Lynn R.
Abstract
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of three language elicitation procedures for 22 Head Start children ranging 3–5 years in age. The elicitation procedures included picture interpretation, imperatives, and story recapitulation. All language samples were tape-recorded and transcribed in traditional orthography. Verbal output was analyzed in mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLU) and complexity of verbal responses as measured by frequency of one-word responses and fillers, as well as grammatical inflections. Results indicated that all 22 children responded to the picture interpretation task with greater verbal output than was obtained from imperatives and story recapitulation. The imperative task ranked second and story recapitulation third. The rank order of willingness to respond corresponded to the amount of verbal output in that picture interpretation yielded the most desirable results, whereas story retelling was least successful.
Publisher
American Speech Language Hearing Association
Subject
Speech and Hearing,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
14 articles.
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