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A Speech Vocabulary Of Australian Pre-School Children, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)
A Speech Vocabulary Of Australian Pre-School Children, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)
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Between 20th November and 1st December 1950, the A.C.E.R. brought together a group of twenty-four children at the Lady Gowrie Child Centre in Melbourne for the purpose of studying their vocabulary.
Stenographers recorded as much as possible of the spontaneous speech of the children during play and other activities. Complete records were also obtained of their speech while talking the Terman-Merrill, Rorschach, Buhler and Murray tests, and while talking about a series of twenty-there pictures portraying a wide range of scenes and activities.
From those records (with the exception of the Murray test) a list of all the words used …