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Sample Size For Measuring Grammaticality In Preschool Children From Picture Elicited Language Samples, Sarita Eisenberg, Ling Yu Guo Jan 2015

Sample Size For Measuring Grammaticality In Preschool Children From Picture Elicited Language Samples, Sarita Eisenberg, Ling Yu Guo

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a shorter language sample elicited with fewer pictures (i.e., 7) would yield a percent grammatical utterances (PGU) score similar to that computed from a longer language sample elicited with 15 pictures for 3-year-old children.

Method: Language samples were elicited by asking forty 3-year-old children with varying language skills to talk about pictures in response to prompts. PGU scores were computed for each of two 7-picture sets and for the full set of 15 pictures.

Results: PGU scores for the two 7-picture sets did not differ significantly from, and were highly …