Judgment tasks for SLI children

[Ken Wexler]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 Schulzpetra at aol.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:36:49 EDT
> From: Schulzpetra at aol.com
> To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: Judgment tasks for SLI children
>
> Dear CHILDES members,
>
> Angelika Wittek and I are currently working on a new experiment designed to
> test children's comprehension of verb meaning. The participants will be
> normally developing and language impaired children roughly between the ages
> of 3 and 6. We have successfully piloted with the yes/no question version of
> the truth-value judgment task.
>
> We are wondering whether the reward/punishment version of the judgment task
> (a la Crain) might be more appropriate for our design and would like to know
> whether this method has been used with SLI-children, and if so how old the
> children were.
> We would appreciate any response pointing us to relevant research.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Petra Schulz
>
>
>
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Ken Wexler
Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
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