Comparison of two methods for scoring syntactic complexity.
Summary scores for Developmental Sentence Scoring and the Index of Productive Syntax were obtained from the language samples of 29 preterm children at preschool age. A moderate correlation obtained between these two measures of syntactic complexity. Only Index of Productive Syntax scores distinguished the language abilities of 19 neurologically normal from 10 suspect children.
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Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D002657:Child Development; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D007807:Language Tests; D014705:Verbal Behavior