Effects of age and stimulus material on character introductions of Swedish-speaking four- to six-year-olds

This study investigates effects of age on character introductions in the oral narratives of seventy-two monolingual Swedish-speaking four- to six-year-olds, comparing results from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN; Gagarina et al., 2012, 2015), and the Edmonton Narrative No...

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Published in:Journal of child language 2018-03, Vol.45 (2), p.526-540
Main Author: LINDGREN, JOSEFIN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Differences
Age effects
Age Factors
Attention
Brief Research Reports
Child
Child Language
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Comparative Analysis
ENNI
Female
Foreign Countries
Humans
Language Acquisition
Language Development
Linguistics
Lingvistik
MAIN
Male
Measures (Individuals)
Monolingualism
Multilingualism
Narration
Narratives
Native language acquisition
Nouns
Oral Language
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Personality
Preschool Children
Psycholinguistics
referent introduction
Semantics
Speaking
Swedish
Swedish language
Task Analysis
Young Children
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Summary:This study investigates effects of age on character introductions in the oral narratives of seventy-two monolingual Swedish-speaking four- to six-year-olds, comparing results from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN; Gagarina et al., 2012, 2015), and the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI; Schneider et al., 2005). The proportion of appropriate referring expressions for introducing story characters clearly increases from age four to six. However, the children's performance is strongly stimulus-dependent. All age groups perform better on MAIN than on ENNI. One should thus be careful when drawing conclusions about the age at which children are able to use referring expressions appropriately.
ISSN:0305-0009
1469-7602
1469-7602
DOI:10.1017/S0305000917000319