A morphemic measure of early language development: data from modern Hebrew

Dromi, Esther; Berman, Ruth A.

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“…MLU in morphemes calculated according to the system adapted for Hebrew by Dromi and Berman (1982), and revised by Levy (1995). MLU in morphemes calculated according to the system adapted for Hebrew by Dromi and Berman (1982), and revised by Levy (1995).…”

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Pathways to language: a naturalistic study of children with Williams syndrome and children with Down syndrome

Levy

Eilam

2012

J. Child Lang.

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This is a naturalistic study of the development of language in Hebrew-speaking children with Williams syndrome (WS) and children with Down syndrome (DS), whose MLU extended from 1·0 to 4·4. Developmental curves over the entire span of data collection revealed minor differences between children with WS, children with DS, and typically developing (TD) controls of similar MLU. Development within one calendar year showed remarkable synchrony among the variables. However, age of language onset and pace of acquisition departed significantly from normal timing. It is argued that in view of the centrality of genetic timing and the network properties of cognition, normal schedules are crucial determinants of intact development. Consequently, with respect to neurodevelopmental syndromes, the so-called 'language delay' is indicative of deviance that is likely to impact development in critical ways.

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Pathways to language: a naturalistic study of children with Williams syndrome and children with Down syndrome

Levy

Eilam

2012

J. Child Lang.

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“…Table 2 for intervals). All the sessions were recorded with either audio (40%) or video 519 Brown (1973) and Dromi & Berman's (1982) methodology. b Duration of each session was 60 to 90 minutes.…”

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The semantic development of negation: a cross-linguistic longitudinal study

Choi

1988

J. Child Lang.

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Negative utterances were collected longitudinally from two English-, five French- and four Korean-speaking children between 1;7 and 3;4. An analysis focusing on both non-verbal context and linguistic form led to the distinction of nine semantic/pragmatic categories which could capture cognitive and linguistic development in some detail: non-existence, prohibition, rejection, failure, denial, inability, epis-temic negation, normative and inferential negation. The nine categories were found in all three languages and their developmental order was similar across the languages. Different patterns were shown concerning the form-function relationship for different categories; for some categories, the distinct form emerged gradually after the function was acquired, while for others, the distinct form emerged simultaneously with the new function. Thus new forms emerged to subdivide an old category or to express a new function. This pattern was most typical for categories developed at later periods. It is suggested that whereas cognitive development precedes language development at an early period, at later periods cognitive and language development interact with each other.

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“…The measure of Words per Clause (WPC) provides a straightforward and reliable measure of syntactic density by specifying how many lexico-grammatical elements are combined within the boundaries of each clause, hence how much information is packaged within a single clause. This measure, in a way comparable to use of MLU (mean length of utterance) in early child language (Brown 1973;Dromi & Berman 1982) requires (a) agreed definition of what is meant by 'a word' for the particular purpose at hand (Berman 2002) and (b) well-motivated specification of clause boundaries as the basis for dividing each text into clauses.…”

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Linguistic diagnostics of written texts in two school-age populations

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Nayditz

Ravid

2011

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The paper considers the writing abilities of Hebrew-speaking grade school and middle school students from mid-high compared with low SES backgrounds, as reflected in stories and compositions they wrote on the topic of friendship. A range of linguistic means of expression were employed as diagnostic of school-age written text construction, focusing on the lexicon and including both devices applicable in different languages (overall text length in words and clauses, syntactic clause density, and lexical diversity and density as reflected in proportions of content words) as well as Hebrew-specific features (verb-pattern morphology and construct-state noun compounds). Analyses showed these features to differentiate across the independent variables of the study: age-schooling level, SES background, and text genre (narrative vs. expository). In terms of genre, expository-type essays usually had denser and more lexically diverse texture than stories. In developmental perspective, lexical usage improved in the texts produced by 13-14 year-olds in comparison with those of 9-10 year-olds. Finally, texts produced by middle-class children attending well-established schools were in general of better lexical quality than those produced by children from disadvantaged backgrounds attending low-achieving schools.

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A morphemic measure of early language development: data from modern Hebrew

Cited by 64 publications

References 16 publications

Pathways to language: a naturalistic study of children with Williams syndrome and children with Down syndrome

Pathways to language: a naturalistic study of children with Williams syndrome and children with Down syndrome

The semantic development of negation: a cross-linguistic longitudinal study

Linguistic diagnostics of written texts in two school-age populations

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