Week 4

Question 1

What is larsp

Answer 1

• LARSP or language assessment remediation and screening procedure is a technique used to analyse syntax of language samples
  
  • The LARSP chart identifies the various staged of syntactic development of a child’s language
  • Documents the presence or lack thereof of morphology, phrases and clauses

Question 2

Why LARSP

Answer 2

• In assessment: LARSP is used in clinical practice to assist in identifying a person’s current stage of syntactic development
  
  • In intervention: Can be used for identifying what the next stage of syntactic development will be, and is therefore useful for identifying areas for intervention
  • In clinics: its present but to a lesser degree
  • Brings together and allows us to apply syntax and how it impacts ones syntactic development

Question 3

LARSP chart structure

Answer 3

• Complex and full of information
  
  • Profiles 7 stages and ages of development
    Structural organization

Question 4

LARSP chart background

Answer 4

• The LARSP stages based on research
  
  • Date gathered from naturalistic language samples of children which provided insight into typical morphological and syntactic development
  • LARSP provides a way of assessing morphological and syntactic development based on natural language and offers an alternative to standardized language tests
  • Based on research on naturalistic language samples
  • LARSP is based on language samples: way of analysing syntactic development
  • Understand what the answers mean
    Ability to understand syntax

Question 5

LARSP chart stages

Answer 5

Stage 1: 1 word utterances: 9 months- 1.5 years
Stage 2: 2 element stage: 1.5-2 years
Stage 3: 3 element stage: 2-2.5 years
Stage 4: 4+ element stage
Stage 5: Recursion
Stage 6: System completion
Stage 7: Discourse appropriate syntax

Question 6

LARSP chart structures

Answer 6

Clause, Phrase, Word

Question 7

LARSP codes: Clauses

Answer 7

• Clause: a grammatical unit that consists of a subject and a verb. Clauses are made up of elements-phrases which serve a function
  
  • In LARSP we document the clause elements, that is, the functions of phrases within a clause, indicated by SVOCA
  • In addition we also document the presence of a Question, Negation, Subordination, Coordination and additional elements
  • S: Subject
  • V: Verb
  • O: Object
  • C: Complement
  • A: Adverbial
  • Coord: Coordination
  • Subord: Subordination
  • Q: Question
  • N: Negative
  • X: Element
  • Y: Element
    Other: Other Elements

Question 8

LARSP code phrase

Answer 8

• Phrase: a grammatical unit smaller than a sentence consisting of one or more words which share a grammatical function
  
  • In LARSP we document the phrase type
  • Adj: Adjective
  • Adv: Adverb
  • N: Noun
  • D: Determiner
  • Pron: Pronoun
  • V: Verb
  • Pr: Preposition
  • NP: Noun Phrase
  • Aux m: Modal aux
  • Aux o: Other aux
  • Cop: Copula
  • cX: Coord word
  • intX: Intensifier
  • NegX: Negation word
  • Other

Question 9

LARSP codes: Word Level

Answer 9

• In LARSP we use the word column to document morphology
  
  • The LARSP column contains developmentally ordered bound morphemes
  • ‘aux: Contracted auxiliary
  • ‘cop: Contracted copula
  • -ed: Regular and irregular past tense
  • -en: Past Participle
  • -er: Comparative suffix
  • -est: Superlative suffix
  • Gen: genitive (possessive)
  • -ing: Present progressive
  • -ly: Adverbial suffix
  • n’t: Contracted negation
  • Pl: Plural
  • 3s: third person singular

Question 10

Monosyntax

Answer 10

• The connection between morphology and syntax
  
  • Inter-related
  • e.g. below
  • Difference in meaning: indicated through auxiliary verb and inflectional morpheme
  • Show there is a connection between syntax and morphology
  • Is and are, are syntax, and the morphology changes depending on the syntax
    Morphosyntactic structure