The Acquisition of Narratives
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The Acquisition of Narratives

Learning to Use Language

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Acquisition of Narratives

Learning to Use Language

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of Tables
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter One: The Establishment of Narrative Coherence
  5. 1 Points of departure: A consideration of relevant research trends
  6. 1.1 Introduction
  7. 1.2 Narrative structures
  8. 1.3 The development of narrative structures
  9. 1.4 Coherence and cohesive devices
  10. 2 The focus of the present study
  11. 2.1 Background
  12. 2.2 Picture book narration: The delineation of a discourse mode for developmental research
  13. 2.3 Method
  14. Chapter Two: Pronominal and Nominal Markers and the Establishment of Coherence
  15. 1 Switching and maintaining reference
  16. 1.1 Pronominal anaphora and discourse segmentation
  17. 1.2 Deixis and anaphora in the picture book narration task
  18. 1.3 Some structural properties of German third person pronouns
  19. 2 Explorations in the acquisition of anaphoric devices
  20. 3 Introduction to the study
  21. 3.1 Guiding questions
  22. 3.2 Coding
  23. 4 Results
  24. 4.1 Analysis and discussion of the adult narratives
  25. 4.2 Analysis and discussion of the children’s narratives
  26. 4.3 Analysis and discussion of multiple strategies in the children’s individual narratives
  27. 4.4 Conclusions
  28. Chapter Three: The Contribution of Tense to Coherence
  29. 1 Tense and text
  30. 1.1 Developmental aspects of “tenses” and “texts”
  31. 2 The use of tense in “simple narratives”
  32. 2.1 Introduction
  33. 2.2 Analysis and discussion of the adult narratives
  34. 2.3 Analysis and discussion of the children’s narratives
  35. 2.4 Summary: Form and function of tenses in simple narratives
  36. Chapter Four: Conclusions
  37. 1 Summary
  38. 1.1 Coherence in adult narrations
  39. 1.2 Coherence in children’s narrations
  40. 2 Switching and maintaining reference and temporally connecting events: The acquisition of two different systems?
  41. 2.1 Organizing the systems
  42. 2.2 Reorganizing the systems
  43. 3 Concluding comments
  44. Bibliography
  45. Appendix A The German tense system
  46. Appendix B Background utterances that are excluded tense coding
  47. Appendix C Reduced copy of the picture book
  48. Index