title: [Assessing the progress of grammar acquisition in young children].
abstract: Children need to acquire approximately 50 words within their first 24 months. This enables them to start combining words to make short sentences, which is also the start of learning rules governing grammar. When children start to construct sentences, the mean length of their utterances correlates with their implicit grammar knowledge. Therefore, the mean length of utterance estimation can be used to assess and monitor the progress of grammar acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie (OE 6510), Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover. Ptok.Martin@mh-hannover.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ptok
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ptok
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007804:Language Development; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014825:Vocabulary