Selectively prompting speech repairs in stages I to V: a technique for investigating early metalinguistic abilities
1Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
When children aged from 1;6 to 3;6 made errors in relation to targeted morphemes within grammatically obligatory contexts, a prompt of "Pardon?" was given. Morpheme repair rates increased with linguistic proficiency, and with target morpheme mastery. The selective use of prompted repairs appears to be a useful technique for assessing rudimentary abilities to monitor grammatical form within very young children.


