Young Children's Structure Production: A Revision of the Index of Productive Syntax

Autor/inn/en	Altenberg, Evelyn P.; Roberts, Jenny A.; Scarborough, Hollis S.
Titel	Young Children's Structure Production: A Revision of the Index of Productive Syntax
Quelle	In: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49 (2018) 4, S.995-1008 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-1461
DOI	10.1044/2018_LSHSS-17-0092
Schlagwörter	Syntax; Comparative Analysis; Child Language; Nouns; Phrase Structure; Toddlers; Longitudinal Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Phrasenstruktur; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Purpose: The Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn; Scarborough, 1990) is widely used to measure syntax production in young children. The goal of this article is to promote greater clarity and consistency in machine and hand scoring by presenting a revised version of the IPSyn (IPSyn-R) and comparing it with the original IPSyn (IPSyn-O). Method: Longitudinal syntax production in 10 30- and 42-month-old typically developing children drawn from the Child Language Data Exchange System (MacWhinney, 2000) Weismer corpus was examined, using both the IPSyn-O and the IPSyn-R. Results: The IPSyn-R provided nearly identical scores to the IPSyn-O with the exception of scores affected primarily by 1 modified noun phrase structure. Structures ranked as more advanced were produced less frequently. The results also reveal which of the IPSyn-R's 59 structures were most and least likely to be produced by this sample at these ages. Conclusions: The qualitative and quantitative differences between the IPSyn-O and the IPSyn-R are relatively minor. The IPSyn-R can make it easier to score the IPSyn, both by clinicians and researchers, and facilitate the IPSyn's move to machine scoring of language samples. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01