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Journal of Speech and Hearing Research Vol.36 973-978 October 1993.
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Conversations With Children Who Are Language Impaired

Asking Questions

Judith R. Johnston 1
Jon F. Miller 2
Susan Curtiss 3

Paula Tallal 4
1 University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C.
2 University of Wisconsin at Madison
3 University of California at Los Angeles
4 RutUniversity at Newark RewarNutgers NJ

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Samples of conversational language were elicited with a standardized interview protocol from 24 children, aged 2:6 to 7:8, half with specific language impairment (SLI), half with normally developing language (LN), matched for language level. Samples were analyzed to determine whether there were associations between adult questioning and children's use of ellipsis. For the SLI children, but not the LN children, increased proportions of questions were significantly correlated to increased proportions of ellipsis. This finding has implications for the use of MLU measures in clinical and research practice.

KEY WORDS: language development, language disorders, language assessment, language samples, questions

Submitted on November 13, 1992
Accepted on April 13, 1992






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