Distributional patterns in recast therapy do not systematically align with patterns in conversational data.

ABSTRACT: Recast therapy is an intervention for morphosyntactic targets but the demanding nature of this child-centered input raises questions about whether the target exemplars differ from their instantiation in naturalistic child-directed speech. We analyzed a corpus of two infrequent structures - object relative clauses (ORC) and passives - produced by 4 clinicians and 9 caregivers (20 dyads) conducting recast therapy to compare performance across groups and utterance types and then compare these findings to distributional patterns reported in the psycholinguistic literature. As compared to caregivers, clinicians overwhelmingly produced more recasts of all kinds and included greater structural variety in their recasts. Differences in the degree, but not direction, were observed for noun phrase ty

SUBMITTER: Koppy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12820857 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature