Changing the Subject: The Place of Revisions in Grammatical Development

Conclusion The results support the hypothesis that subject diversity increases the probability of subject revision. It is proposed that lexical diversity within specific syntactic positions is the primary mechanism whereby revision rates increase with grammatical development. The results underscore the need to differentiate repetition from revision in the classification of disfluencies.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research