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<div>Dear colleagues,</div>
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co-author Yumiko Tanaka wants to create (or find) a
word-learning-ability assessment tool for use by Japanese kindergarten
teachers, as a way to screen for language disorders in Japan (it's
hard to use most existing tasks that we know about, because Japanese
syntax permits so much optional omission of both functors and content
words in discourse).<font size="-1"> We would like to get some
references that show good procedures for teaching nonwords and
assessing the children's language learning.</font> We are of
course (!) familiar with the Gropen and Nelson chapters in the Menn &
Bernstein Ratner book, which are relevant, with Rosemary Myerson's
thesis, and with the classic Carey/Bartlett 'chromium' study, but
wondered if there is something helpful that we are missing?</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>thanks,
Lise Menn</div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">Lise Menn's home page<br>
http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/lmenn/<br>
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"Shirley Says: Living with Aphasia"<br>
http://spot.colorado.edu/~menn/Shirley4.pdf<br>
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Japanese version of "Shirley Says"</font></div>
<div><font size="-1"
color="#000000">http://www.bayget.com/inpaku/kinen9.htm</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">Academy of Aphasia</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">http://</font><font face="Arial"
size="-1" color="#008000">www.academyofaphasia.org/</font></div>
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