Selectively prompting speech repairs in stages I to V: a technique for investigating early metalinguistic abilities.
When children aged from 1;6 to 3;6 made errors in relation to targeted morphemes within grammatically obligatory contexts, a prompt of "Pardon?" was given. Morpheme repair rates increased with linguistic proficiency, and with target morpheme mastery. The selective use of prompted repairs appears to be a useful technique for assessing rudimentary abilities to monitor grammatical form within very young children.
Bowey
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Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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D000367:Age Factors; D002657:Child Development; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D008037:Linguistics; D013060:Speech