Haniff M H, Siegel G M
J Speech Hear Disord. 1981 Feb;46(1):27-30. doi: 10.1044/jshd.4601.27.
Elicited imitation is a language sampling procedure in which a child is asked to repeat an utterance that is modeled by the examiner. In most clinical applications of this technique, the stimulus sentences are presented without any relevant context and without regard to whether the child knows the meaning of the sentences to be imitated. In the current experiment, 16 language-delayed preschool children repeated a set of 40 sentences, controlled for length, without context and with context provided by a set of pictures drawn to capture the meaning of the stimuli. For some of the children, the context had little effect. For the group as a whole, however, the number of errors was significantly reduced when the visual context was provided. These findings suggest that, for at least some children, the elicited imitation procedure is made more sensitive to the child's best grammatical performance when context is added.
诱发模仿是一种语言抽样程序，即要求儿童重复由检查者示范的话语。在该技术的大多数临床应用中，刺激句子是在没有任何相关语境的情况下呈现的，且不考虑儿童是否知道要模仿的句子的含义。在当前实验中，16名语言发育迟缓的学龄前儿童重复了一组40个句子，这些句子在长度上得到控制，呈现时没有语境，并且通过一组为捕捉刺激含义而绘制的图片提供了语境。对于一些儿童来说，语境影响不大。然而，对于整个组而言，当提供视觉语境时，错误数量显著减少。这些发现表明，至少对于一些儿童来说，当添加语境时，诱发模仿程序对儿童最佳语法表现的敏感度会更高。
