Computerized ways to analyze language data Aylin Küntay Language and Communicative Disorders Meeting 10
Announcements November 6th, Tuesday, Visiting Lecturer Birgül Çay (Amerikan Hastanesi, Dil ve Konuşma Bozuklukları Uzmanı) will talk to us about Stuttering: Causes and Treatments Your presentations and project proposals are now due on November 8th, 12:30. Each project should be over within 6 minutes (360 seconds). Less is fine but more will unfortunately have to be cut. Both partners should do some talking.
Language production samples Most useful and widely used way to study expressive language in naturalistic interaction or in elicitation contexts But there are no standardized ways to collect data, to assess data, or to compare data
A couple of systems CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System)/CLAN (Computerized Language Analysis http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/ SALT (Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts) http://www.saltsoftware.com/
Turkish Salt (Funda Acarlar) Toplam sözce sayısı Number of utterances Measures verbal fluency Toplam anlaşılabilir sözce sayısı Number of intelligible utterances Ortalama sözce uzunluğu Mean length of utterance Useful until Toplam sözcük sayısı Number of words Farklı sözcüklerin sayısı-150/200 Diversity of words (Types) Farklı sözcüklerin toplam sözcük sayısına oranı Type-token ratio
Diagnostic/screening measure Those measures that are highly correlated with age can be used to determine developmental delays MLU Number of different words Number of types of words
SALT software 140 children profiled Aged 3 to 6