Expressive Morphosyntactic Probe (EMP): Administration and Scoring Instructions, Answer Sheets, and Stimulus Items
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Finestack, Lizbeth H
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The Expressive Morphosyntactic Probe (EMP) is a screening tool that evaluates children’s ability to produce core English grammatical forms commonly targeted in intervention for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The EMP elicits past tense -ed, singular present -s, plural present unmarked -s, progressive is/are + verb-ing, and auxiliary do/does questions through picture-based prompts featuring two characters, Qubo and Meepa. Each of the two versions, Form A and Form B, includes 56 items that vary in verb frequency and phonological complexity to allow for repeated use.
The EMP was developed by the Child Language Intervention Lab at the University of Minnesota as part of the NIH-funded SMART Explicit Study (R01DC017927), which examines explicit and implicit grammatical instruction. These materials are released to provide researchers and clinicians with a tool for evaluating morphosyntactic skills in children aged 5 to 9 years. No participant data are included.
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The upload includes administration and scoring instructions, examiner protocol forms for Versions A and B, and corresponding picture-based stimulus materials.
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This research was supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under Award Number R01DC019374-01, Explicit and Implicit Grammatical Intervention for Children with Developmental Language Disorder (Principal Investigator: Dr. Lizbeth H. Finestack).
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Finestack, Lizbeth H; Ancel, Elizabeth; Kuchler, Kirstin; Linert, Jamie; Matthys, Olivia. (2025). Expressive Morphosyntactic Probe (EMP): Administration and Scoring Instructions, Answer Sheets, and Stimulus Items. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/6aqe-t894.
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README_ExpressiveMorphosyntacticProbe.pdf
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Expressive Morphosyntactic Probe (EMP) Administration and Scoring Instructions.pdf
Detailed administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures
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Expressive Morphosyntactic Probe_Form A.pdf
Protocol sheet and examiner prompts for Form A
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Expressive Morphosyntactic Probe_Form B.pdf
Alternate-order version (Form B) for re-testing to reduce practice effects
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Expressive Morphosyntactic Probe (EMP) Form A_Stimulus Items.pdf
Picture stimuli slides for Form A
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