Syntactic complexity analysis
We want to use the Part II. Sentences section to assess if the syntactic skills of VI kids are are on-par or more advanced than productive-vocabulary-matched TD kids. The analysis will have three scores:
Score from multiple choice answers
MLU from provided example sentences
Syntactic feature analysis of example sentences
Multiple choice scoring schematic
MLU and syntactic feature analysis
We will put all the example sentences provided into this spreadsheet, and hide the subject numbers so coders can be blind (yikes, what a pun, @ science let's update our terminology) to the vision status of each child.
We will the count the # of morphemes for example utterance, and additionally tag it for the following features:
Overt DO (transitive)
Postverbal preposition or particle
Intransitive without PP
has PP
embedded clause
topicalization
pronouns
number agreement
past tense
1/2/3 person agreement
WH
WH subject gap
WH object gap
WH adjunct
WH prepositional object gap
Embedded WH
WH in situ
Polar question
Passive
RC
RC subject gap
RC object gap
RC adjunct
RC Prepositional object gap
Reduced Relative
resumptive/filled gap
Other Finite clause
Nonfinite clause (without dominant clause)
Imperative
We then need to assign each of these a point value!
2 syntactic coders should tackle this separately, the come together for reliability & agreement
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