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Peer reviewedMinami, Masahiko; McCabe, Allyssa – Language in Society, 1991
Stanza analysis of the conversational narratives of Japanese children, aged five to nine, reveals that they are succinct and usually consist of free-standing collections of three experiences and that stanzas usually consist of three lines. The similarity between these narratives and the Japanese literacy forms of "haiku" and…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Haiku
