title: Comparison of two methods for scoring syntactic complexity.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Holdgrafer
mesh_terms: 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