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Petri, Abigail; Mayr, Robert; Zhao, Fei; Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study examines the content and function of parent-child talk while engaging in shared storybook reading with two narrative books: a wordless book versus a book with text. Thirty-six parents audio-recorded themselves reading one of the books at home with their 3.5-5.5-year-old children. Pragmatic and linguistic measures of parental and child…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Grammar, Feedback (Response), Cues
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Lindgren, Josefin – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study investigates effects of age on character introductions in the oral narratives of seventy-two monolingual Swedish-speaking four- to six-year-olds, comparing results from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN; Gagarina "et al.," 2012, 2015), and the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI; Schneider…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Swedish, Oral Language, Monolingualism
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Dart, Sarah N. – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Presents a comparative analysis of spontaneous story-telling from a bilingual (English and French) four year old without an audience and therefore free of any direct influence from another person. It is found that the French narratives contained a much larger percentage of modifiers and employed a greater variety of tenses. (28 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Comparative Analysis, English
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Hickmann, Maya; Hendriks, Henriette – Journal of Child Language, 1999
The aim of this study was to determine universal versus language-specific aspects of children's ability to organize cohesive anaphoric relations in discourse. Analyses examine narratives produced on the basis of two picture sentences by subjects of four ages (preschoolers, 7-year olds, 10-year olds, and adults) in four languages: English, German,…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis