De Cat, C orcid.org/0000-0003-0044-0527 and Melia, T (2022) What does the Sentence Structure component of the CELF-IV index, in monolinguals and bilinguals? Journal of Child Language, 49 (3). pp. 423-450. ISSN 0305-0009
Abstract
The Sentence Structure sub-test (SST) of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) aims to “measure the acquisition of grammatical (structural) rules at the sentence level”. Although originally designed for clinical practice with monolingual children, components of the CELF, such as the SST, are often used to inform psycholinguistic research. Raw scores are also commonly used to estimate the English proficiency of bilingual children. This study queries the reliability of the SST as an index of children's ability to deal with structural complexity in sentence comprehension, and demonstrates that cognitive complexity induces a considerable confound in the task, affecting 5- to 7-year-old monolinguals (n = 87) and bilinguals (n = 87) alike.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Child Language, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000823. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Linguistics & Phonetics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust RPG-2012-633 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2021 12:16 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2022 02:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0305000920000823 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169244 |