LINGUIST List 23.691 Thu Feb 09 2012 Diss: Socioling/Spanish: Checa-Garcia: 'Syntactic Development ...' Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Irene Checa-Garcia , Syntactic Development Measures Applied to Adolescents in Almería: Descriptive milestones and methodological contributions Message 1: Syntactic Development Measures Applied to Adolescents in Almería: Descriptive milestones and methodological contributions Date: 09-Feb-2012 From: Irene Checa-Garcia <irene.checagmail.com> Subject: Syntactic Development Measures Applied to Adolescents in Almería: Descriptive milestones and methodological contributions E-mail this message to a friend Institution: Universidad de Almería Program: Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2004 Author: Irene Checa-Garcia Dissertation Title: Syntactic Development Measures Applied to Adolescents in Almería: Descriptive milestones and methodological contributions Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa) Dissertation Director: Francisco Joaquín García Marcos Dissertation Abstract: Dissertation title in Spanish: Medidas del desarrollo sintáctico en adolescentes almerienses: hitos descriptivos y aportes metodológicos In my dissertation I investigated the effects of several social factors (such as course level, social class, sex, type of school and area of the school) on various measures of syntactic development for adolescent native written language, some of them commonly used in this kind of research, other new ones that I designed. The results showed that social class together with the course level had the strongest effects over most of the syntactic indexes used, showing quite statistically significant results. In addition, a study of regression showed that social class and are of the school were contributing together in producing most of their effects. Other relevant findings pertained to the methodology to be followed; in particular, the results provide new reasons to use the rewriting method of elicitation, and new indexes to reflect the importance of errors when measuring syntactic development. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Feb-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.