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An investigation of language environment analysis measures for Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers from migrant low-socioeconomic-status backgrounds

Topic:

Not Recorded

Journal/Publication:

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools

Year:

2016

Participant Age Range:

34 –

65 months

Sample Size:

Participant Language:

English, Spanish

Abstract:

Purpose: The current study was designed to (a) describe average hourly Language Environment Analysis (LENA) data for preschool-age Spanish–English bilinguals (SEBs) and typically developing monolingual peers and (b) compare LENA data with mean length of utterance in words (MLUw) and total number of words (TNW) calculated on a selected sample of consecutive excerpts of audio files (CEAFs).