ERIC Number: EJ1344255
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1522-7227
EISSN: EISSN-1522-7219
The Relationship between Oral Language and Storytelling Prosody in Preschool Children
Infant and Child Development, v31 n4 e2329 Jul-Aug 2022
The study examined storytelling prosody (i.e., prosodic variations in retelling a story) and the relation with oral language in Taiwanese preschool children. One hundred and twenty-eight preschool children aged 4 and 5 were recruited and given the following tasks: nonverbal intelligence, vocabulary, syntax, and storytelling prosody. Children's storytelling prosody was evaluated by a four-point scale (i.e., expression-and-volume, phrasing, smoothness and pace). Results revealed that (i) storytelling prosody differed as a function of oral language, (ii) different dimensions of storytelling prosody (e.g., expression-and-volume and phrasing) were correlated with syntactic and vocabulary knowledge and (iii) language production predicted storytelling prosody in male children, but not female children. Together, oral language is correlated with storytelling prosody among preschool children, especially male children.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Suprasegmentals, Oral Language, Preschool Children, Language Skills, Correlation, Syntax, Vocabulary, Gender Differences, Nonverbal Ability
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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