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Download full textMenig-Peterson, Carole L.; McCabe, Allyssa – 1977
This analysis of the structure of children's narratives deals with material gathered from 96 children, aged 3 1/2 to 9 1/2 years, in conversations about events in which they were personally involved. Elements of the narratives and the structural relationship of these elements are examined. Three elements are discerned: (1) chronological…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Narration
Keenan, Elinor Ochs; And Others – 1976
Two major strategies for linguistically encoding an idea or proposition are suggested. The first strategy involves encoding an idea in the space of a single utterance, while the second strategy conveys the proposition through a sequence of two or more utterances. The tendency has been to focus on discourse as a composite of sentences (the first…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
