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Diagnosing Language Variations: Underlying Principles for Syntactic Assessment
2004
Seminars in Speech and Language
The assessment of complex aspects of children's syntactic development can be carried out in a dialect-neutral fashion. The item types proposed for this purpose encompass wh-questions, passives, and articles, and test the child's understanding of implicit grammatical relations, the rules governing syntactic movement, and discourse linking. We present the rationale for the items and the specific research supporting them, as well as some suggestions for how to help children who fail on the
doi:10.1055/s-2004-824825
pmid:15088232
fatcat:grhpt3aw4bgudjsy7eq255gyby