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Testing Production Reading: Lust, B., Flynn, S., and C. Foley. 1996. What children know about what they say: elicited imitation as a research method for assessing children syntax. In D. McDaniel, C. McKee and H. Smith Cairns (eds.) Methods for Assessing Children’s Syntax. MIT Press, pp. 55-76. Elicited imitation Child: Want other one spoon, Daddy Father: You mean, you want THE OTHER SPOON Child: Yes, I want other one spoon, please. Father: Can you say “the other spoon”? Child: Other … one … spoon. Father: Say … “other”. Child: Other. Father: “Spoon”. Child: Spoon. Father: “Other … spoon.” Child: Other … Spoon. Now give me other one spoon? (From Pinker 1994, p. 281) Elicited imitation as an experimental technique Filling the gap (Slobin Welsh 1973, from Lust et al. p. 58) Adult: The red beads ___ and the brown beads are here Child: Brown beads here and red beads here Word order (Lust et al. p. 59) Adult : When he sat down, Johnny read a book Child : Johnny read a book when he sat down, Passive Adult: The boy was kissed by the girl Child 1: The girl kissed the boy Child 2: The boy kissed the girl Child 3: Boy kiss girl Relative clauses (Friedmann Lavi, 2006) ?????: ?? ????? ????? ???? Experimenter: This is the girl that grandma kissed ???: ?? ????? ????? ?? ???? Child: This is the girl that kissed grandma Syntactic complexity Friedmann, N., Lavi, H. (2006). On the order of acquisition of A-movement, Wh-movement and V-C movement. In A. Belletti, E. Bennati, C. Chesi, E. Di Domenico, I. Ferrari (Eds.), Language acquisition and development (pp. 211-217). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press/CSP. Subjects: 60 Hebrew speaking children aged 2;2-3;10: 21 children aged 2;2-2;9, 19 children aged 2;10-3;2, and 20 children aged 3;3-3;10. Task: SR - 80 sentences (8 categories by syntactic complexity), 4 words. Basic SV order: A-S-V unergative-PP yesterday the-boy jumped in-the-garden A-S-V transitive-O yesterday the-boy built