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Research Methods in Language Acquisition - Principles, Procedures, and Practices (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Research Methods in Language Acquisition - Principles, Procedures, and Practices (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Language and the Human Lifespan (LHLS)
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Language acquisition research is challenging-the intricate
behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to
measure objectively. The audible components of speech, however, are
quantifiable and thus provide crucial data. This practical guide
synthesizes the authors' decades of experience into a comprehensive
set of tools that will allow students and early career researchers
in the field to design and conduct rigorous studies that produce
reliable and valid speech data and interpretations. The authors
thoroughly review specific techniques for obtaining qualitative and
quantitative speech data, including how to tailor the testing
environments for optimal results. They explore observational tasks
for collecting natural speech and experimental tasks for eliciting
specific types of speech. Language comprehension tasks are also
reviewed so researchers can study participants' interpretations of
speech and conceptualizations of grammar. Most tasks are oriented
towards children, but special considerations for infants are also
reviewed, as well as multilingual children. Chapters also provide
strategies for transcribing and coding raw speech data into
reliable data sets that can be scientifically analyzed.
Furthermore, they investigate the intricacies of interpretation so
that researchers can make empirically sound inferences from their
data and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to unscientific
conclusions.
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