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McCabe, Allyssa; Bliss, Lynn; Barra, Gabriela; Bennett, MariBeth – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008
Purpose: Personal narratives are common in children's conversations, recommended as the appropriate genre for early writing by educators, and part of many high-stakes tests, possibly because they tend to be better formed than fictional narratives. However, current practice in the field of speech-language pathology employs fictional narratives in…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Language Impairments, High Stakes Tests, Speech Language Pathology
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Peterson, Carole; McCabe, Allyssa – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Presents analyses of the use of the essential connectives "so,""because,""then," and "but" in narratives of children aged three to nine years. Connectives were used semantically, pragmatically, or, rarely, in error. Age changes were minimal. Structural complexity and elaboration improved throughout the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Conjunctions, Connected Discourse