Effectiveness of language elicitation tasks with two-year-olds

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One unstructured and two structured language sampling conditions were compared to determine the ways in which different types of structure would affect 2-year-olds' productions of the possessor + possession semantic relation. In the unstructured, naturalistic condition, the clinician followed the child's lead and responded in ways that would encourage the produc tion of the possessive construction. In the structured conditions, the clinician utilized wh-questions and sentence completion tasks to elicit the possessive construction. While the subjects produced a greater quantity and diversity of possessive constructions in the structured conditions, no differences were observed between the two types of linguistic elicitation techniques. Implications for sampling language with young children are discussed.

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