Average C-Unit Lengths in the Discourse of African American Children From Low-Income, Urban Homes
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Average C-unit lengths in the discourse of African American children from low-income, urban homes.
This investigation reports average length of communication units (C-units) in words and in morphemes for 95 4- to 6 1/2-year-old African American boys and girls from lower-income homes in metropolitan Detroit. Mean C-units increased across the age span of this sample, and kindergartners produced significantly longer C-units than preschoolers. The syntactic complexity of the children's language ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1092-4388,1558-9102
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4102.433