Hughes D, Till J A
J Speech Hear Disord. 1982 Aug;47(3):310-20. doi: 10.1044/jshd.4703.310.
Fourteen normal kindergarten children, all of whom spontaneously used verbal auxiliary and copular forms of BE (VACs) were studied. Two cloze procedures were designed to elicit all three forms of present tense VACs in uncontractible sentence positions. The syntactic elicitation (SE) procedure required the children to observe a syntactic constraint within a descriptive response; the emphatic elicitation (EE) procedure required observation of a stress constraint within a role-playing response. Personal pronouns were used as sentence subjects in both procedures. Results indicated that both procedures were effective in eliciting VACs approximately 75% of the time. The SE procedure was more effective than the EE procedure overall. The procedures did not differ in their ability to elicit auxiliary and copular forms. The effects of subject pronoun person and singular vs. plural verb form are discussed. The procedures have implications for supplementing spontaneous language samples in assessing expressive language.
对14名正常的幼儿园儿童进行了研究，他们都会自发地使用动词性助动词和系动词BE的形式（VACs）。设计了两种完形填空程序，以引出现在时VACs的所有三种形式，且处于不可缩略的句子位置。句法引出（SE）程序要求儿童在描述性回答中遵守句法限制；强调引出（EE）程序要求在角色扮演回答中遵守重音限制。在这两种程序中，人称代词均用作句子主语。结果表明，两种程序在约75%的时间内有效地引出了VACs。总体而言，SE程序比EE程序更有效。这两种程序在引出助动词和系动词形式的能力上没有差异。讨论了主语代词的人称以及单数与复数动词形式的影响。这些程序对于在评估表达性语言时补充自然语言样本具有启示意义。
