CHILDESn
a database of longitudinal language acquisition data maintained at Carnegie
Mellon University.
child languagen
the type of language spoken by young children who are still learning their
mother tongue.
Child language is different from adult language in many ways. For example:
a different sentence structures, e.g. Why not you coming? instead of Why
aren’t you coming?
b different word forms, e.g. goed instead of went, mouses instead of mice.
Differences like these show that children have their own set of rules, and
do not learn language by simply imitating adults.
see also first language acquisition
chi-squaren
also chi-squared, ç^2
(in statistics) a procedure used to determine whether the relationship between
two or more different variables is independent. For example, if we wanted
to find out if there is a relationship between ability to write and belonging
to a particular social or economic group, a chi-square(d) test could be used.
It measures whether a particular distribution of observed values is sufficiently
different from an expected distribution to indicate that it cannot be
explained as a chance occurrence.
see also contingency table
choral practicen
also choral repetition, chorus repetition
in teaching, practice by a whole group or class of students, such as when a
group of students reads aloud from a passage or repeats a dialogue. Choral
practice is sometimes used as a preparation for individual practice or to
develop fluency.
chronological ordern
(in composition) a paragraph in which the information is arranged according
to a sequence in time. For example:
First... after that... later...
see also spatial order
chunkn
a unit of language that forms a syntactic or semantic unit but also has internal
structure, for example:
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