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The LARSP profile of the normal 5 year old, with special reference to phrase structure
Author(s) -
French Ann
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828809011939
Subject(s) - phrase , psychology , distortion (music) , linguistics , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , natural language processing , computer science , computer network , amplifier , bandwidth (computing) , philosophy
Although LARSP (Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure) is a widely used technique in the analysis of expressive grammatical ability in children with language delay or disorder, as yet little guidance is available for evaluating the normalcy of an individual child's profile. This study discusses the difficulty of evaluating LARSP profiles, and suggests that the collection of frequency data from normal children for the occurrence of the various grammatical structures contained in the profile would provide one parameter on which to evaluate. First, frequency data would help the teacher/therapist to decide what structures to teach and in what order, and secondly they would make it easier for the teacher/therapist to decide when a child had achieved a normal profile for his or her chronological age. As a first step in the provision of such data, an aggregated profile is presented which is derived from the profiles of five normal 5 year olds. A description is given of the general shape of the profile and of the details of phrase structure development. The latter is given particular attention because it seems more liable to distortion by inappropriate teaching. An analysis of lexical items occurring in several major word classes is also made, with suggestions for teaching these classes.