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This chapter explores the variables involved in language research and analysis in children. The four primary goals of child language research are (1) to confirm general linguistic principles, (2) discover principles of language development, (3) clarify the relationship of language developments in other areas, such as cognition, and (4) to provide a more or less theoretical description of language. A particular research study is created from the theoretical perspective of the individual conducting the study.

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How many utterances are needed in order to have an adequate sample of language data?

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Size and variability of a language sample is important to consider. If a language sample is too small, then


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A language sample should be representative. That means


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Question 13.
Researchers have found that formal elicitation tasks such as some of the tasks found in formal expressive language tests yield a lower level of language competence from a given child.

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Question 14.
One of the best ways to conduct cross language studies is to use a similar design across subjects from differing language groups.

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Question 15.
Quantitative measures such as MLU etc. are actually fairly inadequate for describing language in detail.

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