The Effect of Age and Task Complexity on the Microstructure of Child Arabic Narratives.
Purpose: This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of preschool- and school-age Kuwaiti Arabic–speaking children. It also explores the effects of story task complexity on the targ...
| Publicado en: | Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 952 - 967 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jul2023
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