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Göbel, Alexander; Frazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles, Jr. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Recent studies of appositives have turned up differences between sentence-medial appositives and sentence-final appositives, for instance, in their availability for discourse continuations. Three experiments investigated whether medial appositives are more difficult to comprehend than final appositives and if so why. Experiment 1 tested…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Phrase Structure, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis
Caballero, Marta; Aparici, Melina; Sanz-Torrent, Mònica; Herman, Ros; Jones, Anna; Morgan, Gary – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The production of a well-constructed narrative is the culmination of several years of language acquisition and is an important milestone in children's development. There is no current description of narrative development for Catalan speaking children. This study collected elicited narratives in Catalan from 118 children aged 4;0-10;11. Narratives…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Narration
Hržica, Gordana; Kuvac Kraljevic, Jelena – First Language, 2022
During narration, speakers constantly choose appropriate referential forms (nominals or pronominals). Children may engage in this reference marking differently than adults. Discourse- or listener-oriented approaches make different predictions about referential behaviour in cognitively demanding situations: the first predicts a higher number of…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Serbocroatian, Narration, Story Telling
Fichman, Sveta; Walters, Joel; Melamed, Ravit; Altman, Carmit – First Language, 2022
This research analyzed adequacy of referential expressions in the narratives of bilingual and monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and typical language development (TLD), aiming to shed light on the relative contribution of morpho-syntactic, discourse-pragmatic, and semantic constraints. Narratives were collected from 51…
Descriptors: Russian, Semitic Languages, Preschool Children, Story Telling
Listanti, Andrea; Torregrossa, Jacopo – First Language, 2023
Heritage language (HL) speakers seem to diverge from monolingual speakers in the acquisition of syntax-discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the studies reporting this finding do not make any distinction between different types of syntax-discourse interface structures. Therefore, it is an open question whether these structures are…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Narration
Wannagat, Wienke; Waizenegger, Gesine; Hauf, Juliane; Nieding, Gerhild – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
This study investigated the effects of auditory and audiovisual text presentation on the three levels of mental representations assumed in theories of discourse processing. A sample of 106 children aged 7, 9, and 11 years listened to 16 short narrative texts, 8 of which were accompanied by a series of pictures illustrating the content.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Discourse Analysis, Memory, Models

Gutierrez-Clellen, Vera F.; Hofstetter, Richard – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
Examination of syntactic complexity in the movie retellings of 77 elementary school-age Spanish-speaking children revealed developmental differences in the length of T-units, index of subordination, use of relative clauses, and prepositional phrases. Analysis underscores the significance of subordination as a cohesive device and as an indicator of…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
McCabe, Allyssa; Rollins, Pamela Rosenthal – 1991
This paper provides information concerning preschool narrative development in typically developing North American children, stressing previously documented links between early narrative skills and literacy development. Methods are provided for assessing narrative skills of language-impaired children. The methods involve eliciting from the children…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Language Handicaps

Hemphill, Lowry; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1994
This study found that three oral discourse genres (script, picture description, and replica play narration) were able to characterize development in discourse abilities in 6 children (ages 5-7) with brain injury and 43 nondisabled children. Brain-injured children produced shorter discourse performances with more off-task talk but showed…
Descriptors: Child Development, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education

McFadden, Teresa Ukrainetz; Gillam, Ronald B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
A holistic scoring procedure was used to rate spoken and written narratives produced by 10 students (ages 9-11) with language disorder and 30 matched peers. Correlations between holistic scores and structural measures of language revealed that quality judgements were moderately related to textual-level measures of form and content but were…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language, Holistic Evaluation

Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1995
Conversational and narrative language samples were elicited from 16 school-age individuals with mental retardation and 16 typically developing children matched for mental age. Analysis demonstrated that both groups produced more syntactically complex language during narration, whereas they were more talkative during conversation. Results support…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education