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 SRCLD Presentation Details 

  Title  
       
    The Measure of Measurement: Measuring Lexical Knowledge  
Author(s)
Karla McGregor - Northwestern University

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SRCLD Info
SRCLD Year: 2003
Presentation Type: Invited Speaker
Presentation Time: (na)
Abstract
Clinicians and researchers alike use standardized tests, parent-report inventories and language sample analyses to quantify children’s lexical knowledge. However, the lexicon is not a static collection of knowledge but a system that emerges from interactions among and between knowledge, context, and processing demands in real time. Aiding investigation of real time lexical processing are methods such as priming and lexical decision tasks as well as technologies such as eye tracking and event-related potentials. The qualitative aspects of lexical semantic knowledge may be studied via analysis of drawings, definitions, task of best performance, and gesture-speech mismatch. One example of real-time measurement and one example of qualitative analysis will be presented with supporting data.
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Supported in part by: NIDCD and NICHD, NIH, R13 DCO01677, Susan Ellis Weismer, Principal Investigator
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Communicative Disorders