Investigating Children's Language: A Comparison of Conversational Sampling and Elicited Production |
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Authors: | Sarita Eisenberg |
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Affiliation: | (1) Columbia University Teachers College, New York, New York, 10027;(2) Department of Communication, Hunziker Wing, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, 07470 |
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Abstract: | This report compared production of infinitival object complements during conversational language sampling to production on an elicitation task. Subjects included 25 children between the ages of 3;7 and 5;4. The children produced more two-noun infinitives and produced infinitives with more main verbs on the elicitation task. In the conversational samples, the children produced infinitives almost exclusively with early-appearing main verbs. These findings suggest that conversational language sampling may underestimate children's grammatical knowledge. |
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