objectives: the spontaneous language sample analysis is an important part of the language assessment protocol. language samples give us useful information about how children use language in the natural situations of daily life. the purpose of this study was to compare conversation, freeplay, and narrative speech in aspects of mean length of utterance (mlu), type-token ratio (ttr), and the numbe...

In this paper we present a sampling algorithm for constrained strings representing the state of parameters of a universal grammar. This sampling algorithm has been used to asses statistical significance of the parametric comparison method, a new syntactic-based approach to reconstruct linguistic phylogeny.

bureaucracy is became dominant structure of government, however, language of government is largely became by language of bureaucracy. many of the problems of public administration are to be traced to, and found in, the language of bureaucracy. this thesis examines the nature of language of government in three decades of islamic revolution of iran and designs efficient pattern of language of gov...

PURPOSE Despite the long history of language sampling use in the study of child language development and disorders, there are no set guidelines specifying the reporting of language sampling procedures. The authors propose reporting standards for use by investigators who employ language samples in their research. METHOD The authors conducted a literature search of child-focused studies publish...