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Sentence Imitation in Pre-School Children

Author(s) -

Jon F. Miller

Publication year - 1973

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383097301600101

Subject(s) - sentence , imitation , inverted sentence , affect (linguistics) , psychology , transformational leadership , linguistics , computer science , communication , natural language processing , social psychology , philosophy

Surface structure complexity, transformational sentence type and sentence length were investigated as variables in a sentence imitation task with pre-school children. Sentences were varied on Yngve depth (High-Low), transformational sentence type (active, negative, wh- question and passive) and sentence length (5-9 words). Sentence length was found to affect sentence imitation in a consistent manner. As sentence length increased, correct imitation decreased. There was an interaction between Yngve depth and transformational sentence type.

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