Aspects of cohesion, tense and pronoun usage in the discourse of the older language-impaired child

South African Journal of Communication Disorders

 
 
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Title Aspects of cohesion, tense and pronoun usage in the discourse of the older language-impaired child
 
Creator Berger, Hilary Sinoff, Aletta
 
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Description Aspects of the discourse of 5 language-impaired children and 5 children with no language impairment, aged approximately 9 years, were compared. A film and a story sequence were utilised to elicit narratives on which, measures of cohesion, tense and pronouns were appraised. Measures of cohesion refer  to the ability to indicate appropriately the relations of meaning with regard to situational context. Measures of tense include aspects of tense range and tense continuity. Measures of  pronouns refer  to the anaphoric use of  pronouns with non-ambiguous referents.  The group of language-impaired children was found  to be significantly poorer on measures of  cohesion and pronominal usage than the normal children, whereas a significant difference between the two groups was not revealed on measures of tense. Possible factors  accounting for  these findings  were discussed and implications for the diagnosis and therapy of the older language-impaired child were considered.
 
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Date 1978-11-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
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Identifier 10.4102/sajcd.v25i1.368
 
Source South African Journal of Communication Disorders; Vol 25, No 1 (1978); 3–16 2225-4765 0379-8046
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 1978 Hilary Berger, Aletta Sinoff https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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