27.1897, Qs: Measures of Development

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Subject: 27.1897, Qs: Measures of Development

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:45:08
From: Mark Brenchley [schlemihl at gmail.com]
Subject: Measures of Development

 
I am looking to build, analyse, and ultimately make available a
densely-sampled corpus of my son's linguistic development, beginning at around
8 months.

To this end, I am looking to get a sense of all the available instruments and
measures that would be potentially useful in tracking his development. These
would be either linguistic (e.g. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the
MacArthur-Bates Index, the Oxford Index, MTLD, VocD) or non-linguistic (e.g.
Bayley scales). Ideally, these would also be corpus-based instruments or
instruments suitable for application in a naturalistic environment. 

My son is British, so instruments designed for this particular context would
also be ideal. However, it would also be interesting to get a sense of how the
range of measures varies according to the national setting; provided they are
applicable to English-speakers.

I will, of course, provide a summary of the feedback to Linguist List.

Any help and advice here would be much appreciated.

With best wishes, and thanks,
Mark
 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



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