PMID- 24687135
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141114
LR  - 20220310
IS  - 1558-9129 (Electronic)
IS  - 0161-1461 (Linking)
VI  - 45
IP  - 3
DP  - 2014 Jul
TI  - Toy talk: simple strategies to create richer grammatical input.
PG  - 159-72
LID - 10.1044/2014_LSHSS-13-0055 [doi]
AB  - PURPOSE: The purpose of this initial feasibility study was to determine whether 
      brief instruction in toy talk would change grammatical properties of adult 
      language, specifically 3rd person lexical noun phrase (NP) subjects. METHOD: 
      Eighteen college students participated in the study. The use of 3rd person 
      subjects was examined before and after instruction on toy talk strategies (i.e., 
      talk about the toys, give the item its name). Change in the input informativeness 
      for tense (i.e., the proportion of verb forms marked for tense out of all verb 
      forms) was also examined, although adults were not instructed on use of 
      tense/agreement morphemes. RESULTS: Following instruction, statistically 
      significant increases with large effect sizes were observed for use of 3rd person 
      subjects, lexical NP subjects, and input informativeness for tense (Cohen's d = 
      1.20, 2.08, and 0.89, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate that 
      young adults can learn these simple strategies with relatively brief instruction, 
      and the use of toy talk also changes the richness of tense/agreement marking in 
      adult language input. Considerations for incorporating toy talk into existing 
      language modeling practices and future plans for evaluating the efficacy of toy 
      talk are discussed.
FAU - Hadley, Pamela A
AU  - Hadley PA
FAU - Walsh, Kathleen M
AU  - Walsh KM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch
JT  - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools
JID - 0323431
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Child Language
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Feasibility Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Language
MH  - Learning
MH  - Male
MH  - Play and Playthings
MH  - Psycholinguistics/education
MH  - *Speech
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2014/04/02 06:00
MHDA- 2014/11/15 06:00
CRDT- 2014/04/02 06:00
PHST- 2014/04/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/04/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/11/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - 1853429 [pii]
AID - 10.1044/2014_LSHSS-13-0055 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 2014 Jul;45(3):159-72. doi: 
      10.1044/2014_LSHSS-13-0055.