Analysis for School-Aged Children's Spoken Language: A Unit Applicable to Korean
- Authors
- Kim, Jung-Mee; Jeong, Yeonju; Shin, Jiyoung
- Issue Date
- 12월-2018
- Publisher
- KOREAN ACAD SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY & AUDIOLOGY
- Keywords
- School-aged children; Korean; C-unit; Clause
- Citation
- COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS-CSD, v.23, no.4, pp.902 - 913
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS-CSD
- Volume
- 23
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 902
- End Page
- 913
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/71436
- DOI
- 10.12963/csd.18565
- ISSN
- 2288-1328
- Abstract
- Objectives:The C-unit is a basic unit for school-aged children's spoken language analysis, and was developed for English speaking children.The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide for C-unit and clause segmentation applicable to Korean and to analyze school-aged children's narrative and yield the reliability. Methods: A total of 48 typically developing children in grade 1, 3, and 5 participated in this study. They were asked to generate narratives and the narratives were recorded and transcribed. The narratives were analyzed based on a new version of the segmentation guide in the number of eojeol (a Korean morphological unit) and words per C-unit, the number of adnominal clauses, adverbial clauses, nominal clauses and quoted clauses per C-unit and the number of total subordinate clauses and total clauses per C-unit. And interrater agreement was calculated. Results: With the exception of nominal clauses which were infrequently used, all the other measures increased as children moved to higher grades. And a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) compared the performance of the three grade groups. There were significant differences among the three grade groups. And interrater agreement of C-unit and clause segmentation between the first researcher and the second researcher was 93.52% and 95.0%, respectively. Conclusion: The results suggest that the elaborate guide for C-unit and clause segmentation for Korean can be a useful tool. School-aged children's syntactic maturity was observed when we applied it to their narratives. And interrater agreement of C-unit and clause segmentation was high.
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