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Departures in the spoken narratives of normal and language-disordered children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Betty Z. Liles  and
Sherry Purcell
Betty Z. Liles*
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
Sherry Purcell
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
*
Betty Z. Liles, U-85, Department of Communication Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268
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Abstract

The spoken narratives of 38 normal and language-disordered children (CA 7;6–10;6) were analyzed by describing their departures from the original text during recall. The narrative texts were presented to an adult listener following each child's viewing of a 35-minute film. The following departure types were compared across groups: (a) acceptable departures from the original text meaning, (b) unacceptable departures from the original text meaning, (c) grammatical departures (i.e., agrammatical utterances), (d) exact repetitions of words or phrases, (e) unacceptable departures from the text's meaning correctly repaired, (f) unacceptable departures from the text meaning incorrectly repaired, (g) departures from text meaning left unrepaired, and (h) repaired grammatical departures. Results indicated that both groups used a higher rate of acceptable departures from the original text meaning than any other departure type, with the normal children producing a higher rate of acceptable departures and a lower rate of unacceptable grammatical departures. Both groups repaired fewer unacceptable grammatical departures than unacceptable departures from text meaning. The groups did not differ in their tendency to ignore grammatical departures. Implications for language processing in narrative discourse are discussed.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 185 - 202
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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