EAN: 9783110415223

RESEARCH METHODS IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - BARB...

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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