SELECTIVELY PROMPTING SPEECH REPAIRS IN STAGE-I TO STAGE-V - A TECHNIQUE FOR INVESTIGATING EARLY METALINGUISTIC ABILITIES

When children aged from 1;6 to 3;6 made errors in relation to targeted morphemes within grammatically obligatory contexts, a prompt of ''Pardon? '' was given. Morpheme repair rates increased with linguistic proficiency, and with target morpheme mastery The selective use of prompted repairs appears to be a useful technique for assessing rudimentary abilities to monitor grammatical form within very young children.