Methods for studying language production / edited by Lise Menn, Nan Bernstein Ratner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menn, Lise.

Ratner, Nan Bernstein.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition--Research--Methodology.

Language acquisition.

Language disorders--Research--Methodology.

Language disorders.

Physical Description:

vi, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

Contents:

1 In the Beginning Was the Wug: Forty Years of Language-Elicitation Studies / Nan Bernstein Ratner, Lise Menn 1

I. Eliciting Knowledge of Language

2 Infants' Verbal Imitation and Their Language Development: Controversies, Techniques, and Consequences / Elise Frank Masur 27

3 Examining Young Children's Morphosyntactic Development Through Elicited Production / LouAnn Gerken 45

4 Coining New Words: Old and New Word Forms for New Meanings / Eve V. Clark 53

5 Children's Innovative Verbs Versus Nouns: Structured Elicitations and Spontaneous Coinages / Ruth A. Berman 69

6 Methods for Studying the Production of Argument Structure in Children and Adults / Jess Gropen 95

7 Methods for Stimulating and Measuring Lexical and Syntactic Advances: Why Fiffins and Lobsters Can Tag Along With Other Recast Friends / Keith E. Nelson 115

8 Eliciting Second Language Speech Data / Catherine Doughty, Michael H. Long 149

II. Gathering Production Data in Naturalistic Settings

9 What You See is What You Get: The Importance of Transcription for Interpreting Children's Morphosyntactic Development / Carolyn E. Johnson 181

10 Food for Thought: Dinner Table as a Context for Observing Parent-Child Discourse / Barbara Alexander Pan, Rivka Y. Perlmann, Catherine E. Snow 205

11 Exploring Register Knowledge: The Value of "Controlled Improvisation" / Elaine Andersen 225

12 The Story Behind the Story: Gathering Narrative Data From Children / Richard Ely, Anne Wolf, Allyssa McCabe, Gigliana Melzi 249

13 Studying Conversation: How to Get Natural Peer Interaction / Susan M. Ervin-Tripp 271

III. Developmental Disorders

14 Elicited Imitation and Other Methods for the Analysis of Trade-Offs Between Speech and Language Skills in Children / Nan Bernstein Ratner 291

15 The Challenge of Studying Language Development in Children With Autism / Helen Tager-Flusberg 313

16 Understanding Grammatical Deficits in Children With Specific Language Impairment: The Evaluation of Productivity / Laurence B. Leonard 333

17 Influences of School-Age Children's Beliefs and Goals on Their Elicited Pragmatic Performance: Lessons Learned From Kissing the Blarney Stone / Mavis L. Donahue 353

IV. Adult Disorders

18 Jean Berko Gleason's Contributions to Aphasia Research: Pioneering Elicitation Techniques / Harold Goodglass 371

19 Studying the Pragmatic Microstructure of Aphasic and Normal Speech: An Experimental Approach / Lise Menn 377

20 Eliciting Language From Patients With Alzheimer's Disease / Loraine K. Obler, Susan De Santi 403.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0805830332

0805830340

OCLC:

40776707