Let’s be explicit about the psycholinguistic bases of developmental measures: A response to Leonard, Haebig, Deevy, and Brown (2017)

Matthew Rispoli, Pamela A. Hadley

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Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this letter is to clarify the psycholinguistic underpinnings of the tense marker total and tense agreement productivity score and to extend the discussion of when composite diversity and productivity measures are best used. Conclusion: We encourage the use of composite diversity and productivity measures when assessing grammar early in development, but we discourage the use of composite accuracy measures until children demonstrate emergence of diverse tense/agreement morphemes across a sufficient number of low-frequency sentence frames.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1455-1459
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Volume61
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2018

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Speech and Hearing

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