Bravo, NataliaLázaro, MiguelMariscal Altares, Sonia2024-11-262024-11-262020-10-15Bravo, N., Lázaro, M., & Mariscal, S. (2020). A sentence repetition task for early language assessment in Spanish. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 23, E39. 10.1017/SJP.2020.431988-2904https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2020.43https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24530The registered version of this article, first published in The Spanish Journal of Psychology, is available online at the publisher's website: Cambridge University Press , https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2020.43La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en The Spanish Journal of Psychology, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Cambridge University Press , https://doi.org/10.1017/SJP.2020.43Sentence repetition tasks have been widely used in the last years as a diagnostic tool in developmental language disorders. However in Spanish there are few (if any) of these instruments, especially for younger children. In this context, we develop a new Sentence Repetition Task for assessing language (morphosyntactic) abilities of very young Spanish children. A list of 33 sentences of different length and complexity was created and included in the task. A total of 130 typical developing children from 2 to 4 years of age were engaged in a play situation and asked to repeat the sentences. Children’s answers were scored for accuracy at sentence and word level and error analysis at the word level was undertaken. Besides a subsample of 92 children completed a non-word repetition task. First results show its adequacy to children from 2 to 4 years of age, its capacity to discriminate between different developmental levels, and its concurrent validity with the nonword repetition task.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess61 Psicología::6102 Psicología del niño y del adolescente::6102.01 Psicología evolutiva61 Psicología::6104 Psicopedagogía61 Psicología::6104 Psicopedagogía::6104.04 PsicolingüísticaA sentence repetition task for early language assessment in Spanishartículoearly language assessmentgrammatical developmentsentence repetitionSpanish language acquisition