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Opportunities and Challenges in the Analysis of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN)
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De Cat, Cécile – First Language, 2022
The development of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) has no doubt contributed to prompting a renewed interest in children's narratives. This carefully controlled test of narrative abilities elicits a rich set of measures spanning multiple linguistic domains and their interaction, including lexis, morphosyntax,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Narration, Measurement Techniques, Morphology (Languages)
Linguistic Organisation and Coherence in Personal Narratives of 10-Year-Old Children with Developmental Language Disorder
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Mateja Gabaj; Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic; Marleen F. Westerveld – First Language, 2025
This study aims to investigate the linguistic organisation and coherence of personal narratives among children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) to provide insight into their communication skills in everyday contexts. A cohort of 10-year-old Croatian-speaking children diagnosed with DLD (n = 50, M = 10;8) and their gender-matched…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments
The Linguistic Expression of Causal Relations in Picture-Based Narratives: A Comparative Study of Bilingual and Monolingual Children with TLD and DLD
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Kupersmitt, Judy R.; Armon-Lotem, Sharon – First Language, 2019
The present study examines the linguistic expression of causal relations between the motion events within the main episode in a picture-based narrative. One hundred and fifty children aged 5-7 were asked to narrate a story based on a series of pictures: 45 Hebrew monolinguals (19 with Developmental Language Disorders [DLD]), 57 English-Hebrew…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Pictorial Stimuli, Semitic Languages, Monolingualism