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Papastefanou, T.; Theodorou, E. Properties of Narrative Productivity, Syntactic Complexity and Lexical Diversity of Typical Bi-dialectal Cypriot-Greek-Speaking Children. Preprints2023, 2023071990. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1990.v1
Papastefanou, T.; Theodorou, E. Properties of Narrative Productivity, Syntactic Complexity and Lexical Diversity of Typical Bi-dialectal Cypriot-Greek-Speaking Children. Preprints 2023, 2023071990. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1990.v1
Papastefanou, T.; Theodorou, E. Properties of Narrative Productivity, Syntactic Complexity and Lexical Diversity of Typical Bi-dialectal Cypriot-Greek-Speaking Children. Preprints2023, 2023071990. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1990.v1
APA Style
Papastefanou, T., & Theodorou, E. (2023). Properties of Narrative Productivity, Syntactic Complexity and Lexical Diversity of Typical Bi-dialectal Cypriot-Greek-Speaking Children. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1990.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Papastefanou, T. and Eleni Theodorou. 2023 "Properties of Narrative Productivity, Syntactic Complexity and Lexical Diversity of Typical Bi-dialectal Cypriot-Greek-Speaking Children" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1990.v1
Abstract
Background: Oral narratives are crucial for evaluating youngsters since they reveal a plethora of information about young children's language development. This study aimed to investigate the development of narrative productivity, lexical diversity, syntactic complexity and in Cypriot-Greek-speaking children during preschool and primary school years. An additional aim was to measure the effect of the children’s gender in their performance on the measures of narratives. Methods: One hundred and twenty-nine typically developing Cypriot-Greek-speaking children were recruited for the study. Results: The results showed that the linguistic structure of narrations reflects a subtle developmental trend. As expected, older children tended to produce longer and syntactically more complex stories than the younger ones, which is in line with previous studies. There were significant differences in all productivity measures between the four-year-olds and those aged seven and ten years old. In addition, the results illustrated that there was not any significant effect of gender in the measures of narrative skills. Specifically, gender did not affect the children’s performance in the sample. Boys and girls had similar narrative measurements in all the variables. Conclusions: This study aims to provide initial evidence in retelling narrative development patterns on typically developing Cypriot-Greek speaking children that could be used by speech and language to compare children’s performance and detect language disorders.
Keywords
retelling; microstructure analysis; Cypriot-Greek bi-dialectal children; typical language development
Subject
Social Sciences, Language and Linguistics
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