ORIGINAL ARTICLE |
Commun Sci Disord. 1999;4(1): 1-14.
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Measures of Utterance Length of Normal and Language - Delayed Children |
Hee Jung Lee`
, and Young Tae Kim`
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Copyright ©1999 The Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology |
이희정(Hee Jung Lee)| 김영태(Young Tae Kim) |
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ABSTRACT |
The present study was designed to compare four measures of utterance length (MLUM , MLUW , MSLM , and MSLW ) among the language- delayed group (LD), their CA-matched group (N- CA), and their LA-matched group (N-LA). Forty- five subject s, each group with 15 children, participated in the study. Each child' s spontaneous utterances were collected in free play settings. Each utterance was analyzed by the number of morphemes and the number of words. The following result s were obtained: (1) significant differences were found in the four measures of utterance length among three groups, (2) All four measures were found to discriminate the LD group and their CA-matched group. (3) Three measures (MLUW , MLUM , and MSLM ) were found to discriminate the LD group and their LA-matched group. |
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