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A Pragmatic Aspect of Language Sampling
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Pragmatic AnalysisLanguage DevelopmentAtypical Language DevelopmentPragmatic AspectEarly Childhood LanguagePsycholinguisticsBilingual Language DevelopmentCognitive PragmaticCorpus LinguisticsDevelopmental SpeechApplied LinguisticsSecond Language AcquisitionSyntaxComputational LinguisticsChild LanguageLanguage AcquisitionSchool-age LanguageLanguage SamplingPicture DescriptionGrammarAdult Language LearningLanguage StudiesHealth SciencesDevelopmental Sentence ScoreSpeech ProductionPragmaticsSpeech DevelopmentLanguage ScienceLanguage CorpusLanguage ComprehensionSpeech PerceptionLanguage InterventionLinguistics
This investigation studied language sampling with normal four- and six-year-old children in three conditions: (1) conversation; (2) picture description with the experimenter and child looking at the stimuli; and (3) picture description with the experimenter unable to view the stimuli with the child. The results show statistically significant differences in Developmental Sentence Score and MLU between the age groups and among the experimental conditions. They suggest that children of these ages are able to alter their linguistic behavior as a result of the listener’s perspective. Implications for language sampling and future research are discussed.