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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)
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
Narrative Coherence of Mandarin-Speaking Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Investigation into Causal Relations
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Sah, Wen-hui; Torng, Pao-chuan – First Language, 2015
Previous research has shown that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had difficulty integrating narrative information coherently. The majority of these studies focused on people narrating in English; however, little is known about the narrative abilities of Mandarin-speaking individuals with ASD. This study investigates the ability of…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Narration
The Development of Narrative Productivity, Syntactic Complexity, Referential Cohesion and Event Content in Four- to Eight-Year-Old Finnish Children
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Mäkinen, Leena; Loukusa, Soile; Nieminen, Lea; Leinonen, Eeva; Kunnari, Sari – First Language, 2014
This study focuses on the development of narrative structure and the relationship between narrative productivity and event content. A total of 172 Finnish children aged between four and eight participated. Their picture-elicited narrations were analysed for productivity, syntactic complexity, referential cohesion and event content. Each measure…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Finno Ugric Languages, Multiple Regression Analysis