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- Title
Sampling Utterances and Grammatical Analysis Revised (SUGAR): Quantitative Values for Language Sample Analysis Measures in 7- to 11-Year-Old Children.
- Authors
Owens Jr., Robert E.; Pavelko, Stacey L.
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to document whether mean length of utteranceSUGAR (MLUS), total number of words (TNW), clauses per sentence (CPS), and/or words per sentence (WPS) demonstrated age-related changes in children with typically developing language, aged 7;0-10;11 (years;months). Method: Participants were 132 typically developing children (aged 7;0-10;11), with a final sample size of 112 participants (57 boys and 55 girls). Fifty utterance conversational language samples were collected using a language sampling protocol. Four language sample analysis metrics (i.e., MLUS, TNW, CPS, and WPS) were calculated from the samples. Results: Results indicated statistically significant agerelated increases in three (MLUS, TNW, and WPS) of the four metrics. Conclusions: MLUS, TNW, CPS, and WPS may be used with other assessment data to document agerelated language changes in children aged 7;0-10;11. When combined with previous data from younger (aged 3;0-7;11) children (Pavelko & Owens, 2017), the data suggest that these metrics offer a set of measures that can be used to assess children's conversational language skills from preschool through late elementary school.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; AUDIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE grammar; INFORMED consent (Medical law); LANGUAGE acquisition; LANGUAGE disorders in children; MULTIVARIATE analysis; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH evaluation; STATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL variables; SAMPLE size (Statistics); INTER-observer reliability; HUMAN research subjects; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance
- Publication
Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools, 2020, Vol 51, Issue 3, p734
- ISSN
0161-1461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2020_LSHSS-19-00027