Toy Talk: Simple Strategies to Create Richer Grammatical Input

Autor/inn/en	Hadley, Pamela A.; Walsh, Kathleen M.
Titel	Toy Talk: Simple Strategies to Create Richer Grammatical Input
Quelle	In: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 45 (2014) 3, S.159-172 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-1461
DOI	10.1044/2014_LSHSS-13-0055
Schlagwörter	Toys; Grammar; Linguistic Input; Nouns; Adults; Feasibility Studies; Native Language Instruction; College Students; Morphemes; Verbs; Effect Size + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Toy; Spielzeug; Grammatik; Sprachbildung; Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; Collegestudent; Morphem
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this initial feasibility study was to determine whether brief instruction in toy talk would change grammatical properties of adult language, specifically 3rd person lexical noun phrase (NP) subjects. Method: Eighteen college students participated in the study. The use of 3rd person subjects was examined before and after instruction on toy talk strategies (i.e., "talk about the toys, give the item its name"). Change in the input informativeness for tense (i.e., the proportion of verb forms marked for tense out of all verb forms) was also examined, although adults were not instructed on use of tense/agreement morphemes. Results: Following instruction, statistically significant increases with large effect sizes were observed for use of 3rd person subjects, lexical NP subjects, and input informativeness for tense (Cohen's d = 1.20, 2.08, and 0.89, respectively). Conclusions: These findings demonstrate that young adults can learn these simple strategies with relatively brief instruction, and the use of toy talk also changes the richness of tense/agreement marking in adult language input. Considerations for incorporating toy talk into existing language modeling practices and future plans for evaluating the efficacy of toy talk are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10