Language Acquisition Data

• Student (experimenter) information
• Subject information
• Detailed data
• Data summary
• Check list of paper to be submitted
• Electronic submission of data

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Subject Information

• check that the child is in the appropriate age range
• identify potentially bilingual children (by a loose definition of bilingual)
• match monolingual and bilingual children by age and sex
• match monolingual and bilingual children by educational level

Child's age: (Must be between 48 and 72 months) years + months = months

Sex: malefemale

Schooling: home careplaygroupcrechekinderprepgrade 1

Languages spoken in the home: EnglishGreekItalianVietnameseChineseOther

Parent's main language to child: EnglishGreekItalianVietnameseChineseOther

Child's main language to parents: EnglishGreekItalianVietnameseChineseOther

Other comments on language:

Use this field for providing appropriate information for specific languages not listed as checkboxes,
and for any other language information that may be relevant.
NB: this box does not word-wrap, i.e. you will need to use the ENTER key to start a new line.

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Detailed Data

• Please take care to enter the data properly.
• In particular, you must enter the child's utterance (in which they used the nonsense word being elicited).
  Remember to do this phonetically.
• The nature of the utterance can sometimes help determine whether the child understood the task but didn't know the plural and past tense forms, versus not actually understanding what was being asked of them.

1. Plural: WUG one bird-like animal (tiny wings, big wing-like ears, enormous feet with footpads, big eyes for finding way), then two. This is a WUG Correct (-s or -z)Alternate (-ez)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	2. Plural: NEZZ one lady caterpillar (with small bonnet, upturned toes on her four shoes, and fancy curly tail), then two. This is a NEZZ Correct (-ez)Alternate (-s or -z)ZeroOther Child's utterance:
3. Past tense: BOD man standing on barrel, swinging an object over a dish. He has a cook's hat and apron. This is a man who knows how to BOD Correct (-ed)Alternate (-t or -d)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	4. Plural: SOTCH one bird-like creature (furry body, floppy ears, long trunk, very strange feet, long tail with tassle), This is a SOTCH Correct (-ez)Alternate (-s or -z)ZeroOther Child's utterance:
5. Plural: RUP one ant-like spaceman in round spaceship (bubble dome, wheels, exhaust pipes), then two. This is an alien from the planet Zurdoo and she calls her spaceship a RUP Correct (-s or -z)Alternate (-ez)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	6. Plural: BICK one spaceman, as before, in ground car (low, long, exhaust pipes in large number, wheels of different sizes), then two. When the alien lands on a planet, she uses her special car. She calls her car a BICK Correct (-s or -z)Alternate (-ez)ZeroOther Child's utterance:
7. Past tense: HAIN man balancing on egg (balloon in hand, farmer's hat, coat and gumboots, polka dots on the egg which is as large as himself). This is a man who likes to HAIN Correct (-t or -d)Alternate (-ed)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	8. Plural: LISH one fat animal (no taller than it is high, striped shorts, bubble nose, polka dot feet), then two. This is a LISH Correct (-ez)Alternate (-s or -z)ZeroOther Child's utterance:
9. Plural: PEDGE one owl-like creature (beanie with pom pom, striped belt -- maybe it is a football fan?), then two. This is a PEDGE Correct (-ez)Alternate (-s or -z)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	10. Plural: HOAD one deer-like animal (triangular face, small smile, ears like a crown, tail to match), then two. This is a HOAD Correct (-s or -z)Alternate (-ez)ZeroOther Child's utterance:
11. Past tense: LART man balanced on spring, jigging back and forth while lying flat on his back, flower in hand, looking pleased and happy. This is a man who likes to LART Correct (-ed)Alternate (-t or -d)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	12. Plural: FOT one bird (with bowler hat, large beak, belly-button, and angel wings), then two. This is a FOT Correct (-s or -z)Alternate (-ez)ZeroOther Child's utterance:
13. Plural: KAZH one creature (six legs with blobby feet, silly expression, crossed eyes, bow ties at neck and tail), then two This is a KAZH Correct (-ez)Alternate (-s or -z)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	14. Past tense: JEG man with very very long legs, but ordinary top half, swinging two striped discs on long strings. This is a man learning to JEG Correct (-t or -d)Alternate (-ed)ZeroOther Child's utterance:
15. Past tense: POAT black-and-white cow balanced on front legs, tongue sticking out, kicking striped beach ball. This is a very special cow because it just loves to POAT. It even went to school to learn to POAT Correct (-ed)Alternate (-t or -d)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	16. Plural: LEB one pig-like animal (with lots of scales sticking out and something like a ribbon around its neck), then two. This is a LEB Correct (-s or -z)Alternate (-ez)ZeroOther Child's utterance:
17. Plural: TASS one fish-like creature (with thin legs, and very large boots), then two This is a TASS Correct (-ez)Alternate (-s or -z)ZeroOther Child's utterance:	18. Past tense: SEP woman with clown's hat, fancy coat, pleated skirt, jumping above a six-legged horse with its coat on. This woman works in a circus, and there her job is to SEP Correct (-t or -d)Alternate (-ed)ZeroOther Child's utterance:

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Summary data

	Summary Data
	Plural (number correct out of 6)		Past Tense (number correct out of 3)
Simple	-s or -z allomorph		-t or -d allomorph
Complex	-ez allomorph		-ed allomorph

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Checklist of paper for submission

• Consent form
• Subject information and summary data
• Detailed data pages

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Electronic data submission

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