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Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools Vol.13 121-128 April 1982.
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An Examination of Language Samples Obtained under Three Experimental Conditions

Louise D. Stalnaker
Nancy A. Creaghead

Language samples were obtained from 12 Head Start preschool children under the following three experimental conditions: Condition I, Retelling a Story with Toys; Condition II, Playing with Toys; Condition III, Toys with Questions. The quantity and quality of the three samples gathered from each child were compared by analyzing the total number of utterances, the proportion of the total utterances which were sentence fragments, the number of transformations and adverbial expansions, the number of different semantic relationships, and the mean length of utterance (MLU). Results indicated that retelling a story produced the largest MLU, but toys and questions produced more utterances. These findings indicated that questioning children does not inhibit their language and asking them to retell a story may be a fruitful approach to use when gathering a language sample.

Submitted on July 31, 1980
Accepted on January 28, 1981




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