Collecting Language Samples

[Helen Tager-Flusberg]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for ideas about how to elicit
language samples from both children and adults using similar protocols.
Here is a summary of the ideas I received:

Collecting Language Samples from Children and Adults

Combination of free speech/conversation and narratives

· Biographical interview
· Planned shared activity e.g., making popcorn
· Personal narratives (prompted or unprompted) - Alyssa McCabe's work
· Frog stories*
· Cookie theft story

* Advised by nearly everyone!

Special thanks to the following people many of whom offered to share their
own data using some of the methods:

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Elizabeth Bates
Lowry Hemphill
Jon Miller
Krista Wilkinson
Ron Gillam


We're now synthesizing this information and finalizing our own protocol
given the needs of our research project,
Thanks again,
Helen Tager-Flusberg
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Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist			Research University Professor 
Psychological Sciences Division		Department of Psychology
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center		University of Massachusetts
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