First Advisor

Joan McMahon

Term of Graduation

Fall 1980

Date of Publication

10-7-1980

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.) in Speech Communication

Department

Speech Communication

Language

English

Subjects

Children -- Language, Spanish language -- Syntax

DOI

10.15760/etd.2986

Physical Description

1 online resource (3, vii, 73 pages)

Abstract

The primary purpose of the present study was to compare the quality of spontaneous language samples elicited from twelve low socioeconomic, normally developing, migrant Spanish-speaking subjects by their mothers in the home and by this investigator in the clinic. The subjects ranged in age from three years, one month to six years, nine months.

The essential question sought to determine if the comparison of language samples elicited in the home by the mothers and the language samples. elicited in the clinic by the investigator yielded significant differences in syntactical language development as measured by the Developmental Assessment of Spanish Grammar (DASG) (Toronto, 1972, 1976). Comparison of DASG total scores and DASG individual category scores was made between the home and the clinic samples. Mean scores were determined for the subjects' performances in each setting. Differences between the means of the different results were analyzed utilizing a t-test. In addition, t-test analysis was conducted to determine the significance level of DASG scores when compared by age and sex in the clinic and in the home, and by order of examination.

The results of the present study appear to support findings of studies conducted with English-speaking subjects. Although the speech-language clinician may elicit greater amounts of speech, there is a slight difference in favor of the quality of the language samples elicited by the mother in the home. This difference, however, is not statistically significant and does not invalidate those samples taken in the clinic.

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