This book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and
researchers in the choice and use of methods for investigating
children's grammar. The study of child language and, in particular,
child syntax is a growing area of linguistic research, yet
methodological issues often take a back seat to the findings and
conclusions of specific studies in the field. This book is designed
in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the
choice and use of methods for investigating children's grammar. For
example, a method (or combination of methods) can be chosen based
on what is measured and who the target subject is. In addition to
the selection of methods, there are also pointers for designing and
conducting experimental studies and for evaluating research.
Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax combines the best features
of approaches developed in experimental psychology and linguistics
that ground the study of language within the study of human
cognition. The first three parts focus on specific methods, divided
according to the type of data collected: production, comprehension,
and judgment. Chapters in the fourth part take up general
methodological considerations that arise regardless of which method
is used. All of the methods described can be modified to meet the
requirements of a specific study. Contributors Helen Smith Cairns,
Katherine Demuth, Jill de Villiers, Suzanne Flynn, Claire Foley,
LouAnn Gerken, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Helen Goodluck, Peter
Gordon, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Jennifer Ryan Hsu, Louis Michael Hsu,
Celia Jakubowicz, Laurence B. Leonard, Barbara Lust, Dana McDaniel,
Cecile McKee, Thomas Roeper, Michele E. Shady, Karin Stromswold,
Rosalind Thornton Language, Speech, and Communication series
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