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Lexical diversity in listeners' judgments of children
1Department of Communication Disorders, Bowling Green State University, OH 43403.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
This study explored the influence of children's lexical diversity during conversation on the way the children were evaluated by adults. Four adults listened to 93 2-min, samples of children, aged 36 to 78 months, conversing with an adult. They rated each child on 10 7-point bipolar adjective scales. Analysis indicated that children who conversed with low lexical diversity were perceived as less appealing, mature, and talkative than those who conversed with high diversity.