Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Journal / Book Title

Language, speech, and hearing services in schools

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a shorter language sample elicited with fewer pictures (i.e., 7) would yield a percent grammatical utterances (PGU) score similar to that computed from a longer language sample elicited with 15 pictures for 3-year-old children.

Method: Language samples were elicited by asking forty 3-year-old children with varying language skills to talk about pictures in response to prompts. PGU scores were computed for each of two 7-picture sets and for the full set of 15 pictures.

Results: PGU scores for the two 7-picture sets did not differ significantly from, and were highly correlated with, PGU scores for the full set and with each other. Agreement for making pass–fail decisions between each 7-picture set and the full set and between the two 7-picture sets ranged from 80% to 100%.

Conclusion: The current study suggests that the PGU measure is robust enough that it can be computed on the basis of 7, at least in 3-year-old children whose language samples were elicited using similar procedures.

DOI

10.1044/2015_LSHSS-14-0049

Published Citation

Eisenberg, S. L., & Guo, L. Y. (2015). Sample size for measuring grammaticality in preschool children from picture-elicited language samples. Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 46(2), 81-93.

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