title: GCS: a grammatical coding system for natural language data.
abstract: This article presents a rationale and description of GCS, or Grammatical Coding System. GCS is a general-use grammatical coding system designed for research on the language of normal and language-impaired children or adults and is especially useful for studies in which a relatively large number of participants are involved. It implements recent theoretical developments in linguistics to characterize development and/or language disorder in children and adults. In addition to the coding system, a computerized method for reading coded transcripts and calculating relevant descriptive statistics is presented. A full coded transcription is included in the Appendix. A detailed GCS manual may be downloaded from www.psychonomic.org/archive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543, USA. scurtiss@ucla.edu
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Curtiss
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: MacSwan
authors.forename: Jeannette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schaeffer
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kural
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sano
mesh_terms: D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*