The Validity of a Transcript-Based Measure of Child Language Development in Czech

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Matiasovitsová, K. - Čechová, P. - Sláma, J. - Treichelová, J. - Smolík, Filip
The Validity of a Transcript-Based Measure of Child Language Development in Czech.
Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville: Cascadilla Press, 2023, s. 533-547. ISBN 978-1-57473-087-6.
[Boston University Conference on Language Development /47./. Boston (US), 03.11.2022-06.11.2022]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081740
Klíčová slova: child * language development * Czech
Obor OECD: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
https://www.lingref.com/bucld/47/BUCLD47-44.pdf

The Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn, Scarborough 1990) is a well-established measure of language development, widely used for English and adapted for other languages (Hewitt et al. 2005, for English, Nieminen 2009, for Finish, Oetting et al. 2010, for African-American English, Ooi and Wong 2012, for bilingual Chinese-English speaking children, Saban-Dülger et al. 2022, for Turkish, Washington et al. 2019, for English and Jamaican Creole). IPSyn examines whether specific morphosyntactic phenomena are productive in children’s talk, regardless of their frequency of occurrence or the appropriateness of their use. The original IPSyn scale (Scarborough 1990) contains 56 categories divided in four subscales (Noun Phrases, Verb Phrases, Questions and Negations, Sentence Structures), and the child can score 0–2 points in each of them (0 = no Soccurrence, 1 = 1 occurrence, 2 = 2 or more distinct occurrences). The upper limit of two occurrences was set to simplify the calculation, and it presumably reflects the child's ability to use specific linguistic structures (Scarborough 1990).
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0348696