Speech Analysis

Title: Speech Analysis
Category: Literature / English | Words: 836 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Speech Analysis

Speech Analysis- The language sample that was analyzed was taken from a child 4 years and 11 months old. The recording took place in the child’s bedroom, and I was the only other person present. The sample analysis is based on approximately 15 minutes of speech or 50 utterances. After transcribing the sample, I first calculated the Type Token Ratio (TTR). The Type Token Ratio measures the child’s lexical diversity. It is calculated by dividing the total …showed first 75 words of 836 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 836 total…drawn are only for this child at the time the sample was taken and only for fifty utterances. The child is slightly above average in syntactic development, slightly below average in morphological development, and exhibits signs of average semantic development. The pragmatic analysis was only descriptive and cannot be compared to any norms. Through these analyses we can see that the child is following a normal pattern of development with no significant strengths or weaknesses.

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