Pragmatics of interrogtaives

[Eva Berglund]

Hello,

Are there any previous studies that could give some clue about the size of
eventual differences? That could make it possible to perform a power
analysis to estimate reasonable samplesizes.

Regards

Eva Berglund



On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Vaidyanathan Raghunathan <raguvai at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> One of my Ph.D student, reenctly, has to  face a problem before the ethics
> committe of the Institution. She is planning to do her research on the
> Understanding the pragmatic functions in Tamil Children in then age range of
> 3-9. She has formulated 25 test questions and has plans to admisnster them
> to nearly 180 children But the ethics committee expects her to raduce the
> range to 3-7 and adminster the test on 450 children.
>
> I personally feel the number is on the higher side and can be reduced. Will
> the members be kind enough to give their opinion as to the number of
> children needs to be studied to have valid and reliable result of the
> comprhension of the pragmatic function of Interrogatives?
>
> Prof. Vaidyanathan
> .
>
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