What is it about?
We found that two tools were particularly helpful to measure the language of French-speaking school-aged children. First, one could ask a child to tell a story and then count the mean number of words per sentence the child produced. Second, one could ask a child to define words and then count the proportion of embedded verbs the child produced.
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Why is it important?
Practitioners and researchers who wish to measure the language of French-speaking school-aged children are often left wondering which tools to use. Our findings can guide them in their measurement decisions.
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This is the first article of my Ph.D. thesis and the first article I have ever published. This research is what got me interested in the structure of language.
Dr Catherine Mimeau
Université TÉLUQ
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This page is a summary of: Comparison of measures of morphosyntactic complexity in French-speaking school-aged children, First Language, March 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0142723715577320.
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