Elicited imitation paradigm

[Liam Blything]

Thank you Brian, Ana, Nan, and Roberto for your thoughts. If I follow the 
advice in those links, then imitation certainly seems to be worthwhile.

Brian, I would be interested if you are willing to talk a bit more about 
your forthcoming study that imitation does include "an aspect of 
comprehension or at least adequate parsing." This extra requirement in 
imitation tasks means that it might it be best to run an additional study 
where the comprehension aspect is removed. For example, an elicited 
production task with *blocked* presentations of each condition (e.g., in 
each blocked session, we emphasise through training trials that we want all 
sentences to use a specific connective/construction) is still designed to 
restrict what the child says, but has no comprehension element. I am aware 
of the limitations of a blocked design, but if the pattern remains the same 
for both paradigms then reviewers/critics would have little argument that 
my imitation conclusions are influenced by comprehension/parsing demands. 

Any thoughts are very welcome!

Liam Blything
Lancaster University PhD student.

On Friday, 8 March 2013 17:31:10 UTC, Liam Blything wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone give me some advice on what age-groups are too old for an *elicited 
> imitation paradigm*? I have read that 4 years old is quite an old age to 
> use this paradigm, but other studies have used it up to 7 years old.
>
> I am eliciting two clause sentences linked by a connective (before, 
> after). When do children become at high-risk for simply 'parrotting' the 
> target sentence?
>
> Many thanks for any thoughts,
>
> Liam Blything
> Lancaster University PhD student.
>

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