Doing new things with language: Narrative language in SLI preschoolers
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The paper deals with micro- and macrostructural static and dynamic narrative characteristics in specifically language-impaired (SLI) Russian-speaking preschool children and their typically-developing (TD) peers. The study was based on experimental data that included storytelling and retelling elicited by means of wordless picture sequences. First, individual measures of story structure, episode com- pleteness, internal state terms, story productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity, as well as the percentage of linguistic dysfluencies and errors, were evaluated and compared between the experimental and control groups. Second, the impact of such factors as session (1st vs. 2nd), story complexity, and mode (telling vs. retelling) on the dynamic variation of micro- and macrostructural narrative measures was evaluated. Our results highlighted essential dynamic differences between the samples from the perspective of narrative structure, structural complexity, grammaticality, and vocabulary.
Uued keelelised tegeused: spetsiifilise kõnearengu puudega koolieelikute narratiivikeel
Artikkel käsitleb narratiivi mikro- ja makrostruktuursete tunnuste dünaamikat venekeelsetel spetsiifilise kõnearengu puudega koolieelikutel. Uurimismaterjal on kogutud katsega, mis sisaldas loo jutustamist ja seejärel ümberjutustamist sõnadeta pildiseeriate abil. Katserühm koosnes 12 venekeelsest spetsiifilise kõnearengu puudega 6-aastasest koolieelikust ja kontrollrühm 12 arenguhäireta eakaaslasest.
Esmalt hinnati ja võrreldi katseisikute ja kontrollgrupi narratiivide üksikuid näitajaid, nagu jutustuse ülesehitus, episoodide terviklikkus, seisundisõnad (narratiivi makrostruktuursed tunnused), üldine produktiivsus, leksikaalne mitmekesisus, süntaktiline keerukus (narratiivi mikrostruktuursed tunnused), protsentuaalselt ka lingvistilise soravuse segajaid, nagu takerdused, täitesõnad, kordused, parandused, ühendused, ning veakategooriaid (leksikaalsed, grasmmatilised, stilistilised vead).
Teiseks mõõdeti selliste faktorite nagu sessiooni (1. vs. 2.), loo keerukuse ja laadi (jutustus vs. ümberjutustus) mõju narratiivi mikro- ja makrostruktuursete näitajate dünaamilisele varieerumisele. Uurimustulemused valgustasid katsejuhtumite peamisi dünaamilisi erinevusi narratiivi ülesehituse, struktuurse keerukuse, grammatilisuse ja sõnavara vaatepunktist.
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