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ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Theoretical, Applied and Comparative Linguistics |
| Trushchelev P. | Pushkin State Russian Language Institute; Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University |
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Keywords: narrative pictorial narrative children’s speech speech underdevelopment text grammar quantitative analysis |
Summary: The article identifies linguistic characteristics of narratives produced by children with speech disorders.
The material includes 75 oral narratives (1,894 words) based on a three-part picture story. The quantitative linguistic
analysis was conducted to assess linguistic parameters of the narratives. Grammatical patterns of clause organisation
were examined, including clause length, dependency structure, part-of-speech structure, verb and noun forms, and
functional perspective. The analysis also covers clause types and units expressing inter-clausal relations. The actant and
event structures of the narratives were examined. The findings show that the narratives tend to describe only the main
events employing short non-extended clauses constructed according to the subject – verb – object model. Consider-
able variability was observed in event naming. Textual coherence was primarily achieved through using coordinating
conjunctions and contextually related subjects, which marked relations of addition only. Causal and spatio-temporal connections remained largely unexpressed. The article suggests that, in generating their narratives, the children relied not on the event structure of the picture story, but on its actant configuration. |
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