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| Child Development | 1 |
| Cultural Influences | 1 |
| Folk Culture | 1 |
| Narration | 1 |
| Story Grammar | 1 |
| Story Telling | 1 |
| Young Children | 1 |
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| Topics in Language Disorders | 1 |
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| Sutton-Smith, Brian | 1 |
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Peer reviewedSutton-Smith, Brian – Topics in Language Disorders, 1986
Using an anthropological approach to folklore, the article views children's development of fictional narratives as performances that accentuate prosody. When viewed as performance, the meaning of stories is seen to be not just in the underlying structures, but also in the social and cultural contexts of the story. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Influences, Folk Culture, Narration
