Connell P J, Myles-Zitzer C
J Speech Hear Disord. 1982 Nov;47(4):390-6. doi: 10.1044/jshd.4704.390.
Two aspects of elicited imitation procedures, the relationship between imitation and spontaneous performance and the effect of nonlinguistic context, were examined using seven normal preschool children. The children performed two tasks: (a) they participated in a conversation with an adult and (b) they imitated 80 sentences controlled for length and structure while viewing a videotape depicting four types of nonlinguistic contexts. The results indicated that elicited imitation performance did not accurately predict spontaneous speech performance and that the addition of nonlinguistic context cues did not significantly effect the accuracy of imitation. The implications of these findings to clinical procedures are discussed.
研究人员使用7名正常的学龄前儿童，对引发模仿程序的两个方面进行了研究，即模仿与自发表现之间的关系以及非语言情境的影响。孩子们完成了两项任务：（a）他们与一名成年人进行对话；（b）他们在观看描绘四种非语言情境的录像带时，模仿80个长度和结构得到控制的句子。结果表明，引发模仿表现并不能准确预测自发言语表现，并且添加非语言情境线索对模仿的准确性没有显著影响。本文讨论了这些研究结果对临床程序的启示。
