Coding grammatical errors in language samples

[htagerf at bu.edu]

We are currently coding language samples and are interested in the presence
of grammatical errors.  One concern is how to distinguish between
'vernacular use' and genuine errors.  Here are examples that we don't know
what to do with:  - regarding the use of "there are"- I am finding many
subjects using it as a contraction in the singular when the plural form is
called for- i.e. "there's more people here then expected" or "there's 100
people attending the service Also using "good" instead of "well"- "He ran
really good at the race"? The other issue was dropping "ly" from adverbs-
"he drew nice" or various combinations of both "she plays real good"



Any ideas on this?  rules to follow?

thanks in advance for advice,

Helen Tager-Flusberg

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