Judit Bóna (ed.)

(Dis)fluencies in children’s speech

Syntactic complexity

To estimate the degree of syntactic complexity, we first calculated the MLU (Brown, 1973) per child. The MLU can be defined as the ratio of morphemes to utterances, and it has been calculated using the CLAN’s MLU after an automatic generation of morphological analyses on the %mor tier after disambiguation with the POST program. As mentioned earlier, MLU is believed to be correlated with age until 48 months (Klee et al., 1989) and highly correlated with the growth of grammatical complexity between MLU 1 and 3 (Rondal et al., 1987). After the MLU of 3, the measure is not so well correlated with syntactic development. This being said, this correlation seems measure dependent, since a better correlation between the MLU and grammatical complexity was reported when the grammatical complexity was measured with IPSyn (Scarborough et al., 1991).

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2021

ISBN: 978 963 454 709 9

Nyelvészet

Disfluencies (filled pauses, filler words, repetitions, part-word repetitions, prolongations, broken words, and revisions) are natural phenomena of everyday speech. They are insights on the speech planning processes indicating speech planning difficulties or self-monitoring, and play an important role in turn-taking during conversations. The occurrences of disfluencies in speech are affected by several factors. One of these is the speaker’s age. This volume is a collection of nine articles on the topic of speech planning and speech production of children from the aspects of fluency, disfluency, speech tempo, and pausing. The volume is recommended to linguists, experts of phonetics and psycholinguistics, speech and language therapists, university students, child language specialists, and everybody who is interested in child language

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