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Assessing Relationships Among Age, Language Variation, and Narrative Microstructure |
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Isabelle Francois - University of Houston
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Monique Mills - University of Houston
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2021 |
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Poster Presentation |
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PS3-15 |
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Rationale
To examine morphosyntax produced in the spoken narratives of school-age African American children.
Methods
Forty-nine African American children with typical development, ages 7- to 10 years, produced four narratives and completed the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test (DELV-S)—a measure of dialect variation. The DELV-S classifies children as having no, some or strong variation from Mainstream American English (MAE). We computed scores on two measures of morphosyntax: Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) and Index of Productive Syntax (IPsyn). We then employed regression analysis to examine how well age in months and language variation predicted scores on the DSS and IPsyn.
Results
Preliminary results indicate age and language variation predict scores on DSS but not IPSyn.
Conclusions
Examining school-age African American children’s facility with rare vocabulary appears to be a dialect-neutral way to measure their narrative language.
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