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Preece, Alison – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Examination of the productive narrative competence of three five-year-olds revealed that the children routinely and regularly produced a striking variety of 14 narrative forms. Seventy percent of the narratives took anecdotal form, and original fantasy narratives occurred only rarely. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Discourse Analysis, Kindergarten Children