Toward Validation of a Minimal Competence Core of Morphosyntax for African American Children

Autor/inn/en	Stockman, Ida J.; Guillory, Barbara; Seibert, Marilyn; Boult, Johanna
Titel	Toward Validation of a Minimal Competence Core of Morphosyntax for African American Children
Quelle	In: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22 (2013) 1, S.40-56 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1058-0360
DOI	10.1044/1058-0360(2012/11-0124)
Schlagwörter	African American Children; Preschool Children; Disadvantaged Youth; Child Language; Speech; Oral Language; Sampling; Language Tests; Criterion Referenced Tests; Syntax; Morphology (Languages); Minimum Competencies; Geographic Location; Differences; Regression (Statistics); Louisiana; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Speaking; Sprechen; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Language test; Sprachtest; Morphology; Morphologie; Fundamentum; Mindestwissen; Unterscheiden; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Purpose: The authors set out to determine (a) whether African American children's spontaneous spoken language met use criteria for a revised minimal competence core with original and added morphosyntactic patterns at different geographical locations, and (b) whether pass/fail status on this core was differentiated on other criterion measures of language maturity. Method: The authors used a common set of activities and stimuli to elicit spontaneous speech samples from Head Start students, age 3;0 (years; months). The 119 participants were distributed at a northern (Lansing, MI) and a southern (Baton Rouge, LA) location. Results: More than 80% of the children at each location met criteria for 10 core competencies. They included sentence length, type, complexity, and morphosyntactic elaborations of sentences at the lexical, phrasal, and clausal levels. The 2 most significant predictors of pass/fail outcomes in a regression analysis were (a) clinical referral status and (b) the number of different words (NDW[subscript 100]) spoken in a speech sample. Conclusion: A minimal competence core analyses of spontaneous oral language samples may help to identify delayed spoken grammars in African American children. (Contains 8 tables.) (As Provided).
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