Methods for Studying Language Production

Contents: N.B. Ratner, L. Menn, In the Beginning Was the Wug: Forty Years of Language-Elicitation Studies. Part I:Eliciting Knowledge of Language. E.F. Masur, Infants' Verbal Imitation and Their Language Development: Controversies, Techniques, and Consequences. L. Gerken, Examining Young Children's Morphosyntactic Development Through Elicited Production. E.V. Clark, Coining New Words: Old and New Word Forms for New Meanings. R.A. Berman, Children's Innovative Verbs Versus Nouns: Structured Elicitations and Spontaneous Coinages. J. Gropen, Methods for Studying the Production of Argument Structure in Children and Adults. K.E. Nelson, Methods for Stimulating and Measuring Lexical and Syntactic Advances: Why Fiffins and Lobsters Can Tag Along With Other Recast Friends. C. Doughty, M.H. Long, Eliciting Second Language Speech Data. Part II:Gathering Production Data in Naturalistic Settings. C.E. Johnson, What You See Is What You Get: The Importance of Transcription for Interpreting Children's Morphosyntactic Development. B.A. Pan, R.Y. Perlmann, C.E. Snow, Food for Thought: Dinner Table as a Context for Observing Parent-Child Discourse. E. Andersen, Exploring Register Knowledge: The Value of "Controlled Improvisation." R. Ely, A. Wolf, A. McCabe, G. Melzi, The Story Behind the Story: Gathering Narrative Data From Children. S. Ervin-Tripp, Studying Conversation: How to Get Natural Peer Interaction. Part III:Developmental Disorders. N.B. Ratner, Elicited Imitation and Other Methods for the Analysis of Trade-Offs Between Speech and Language Skills in Children. H. Tager-Flusberg, The Challenge of Studying Language Development in Children With Autism. L.B. Leonard, Understanding Grammatical Deficits in Children With Specific Language Impairment: The Evaluation of Productivity. M.L. Donahue, Influences of School-Age Children's Beliefs and Goals on Their Elicited Pragmatic Performance: Lessons Learned From Kissing the Blarney Stone. Part IV:Adult Disorders. H. Goodglass, Jean Berko Gleason's Contributions to Aphasia Research: Pioneering Elicitation Techniques. L. Menn, Studying the Pragmatic Microstructure of Aphasic and Normal Speech: An Experimental Approach. L.K. Obler, S. De Santi, Eliciting Language From Patients With Alzheimer's Disease.

Biography

Lise Menn, Nan Bernstein Ratner

"This book would be especially useful for graduate students in psycholinguistics as a starting point for discussion about what goes into designing an experiment in which talk is the data. As a basis for a seminar on psycholinguistic methodology, it has the advantage not only of stimulating thought about how talk is elicited but also provides a broad-based review of the kinds of questions and theoretical issues in the field today. Moreover, the editors have done a credible job of setting a friendly and accessible tone to the chapters."
—Contemporary Psychology