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View article: Continuing the development of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – New language adaptations and empirical investigations
Continuing the development of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – New language adaptations and empirical investigations Open
This volume contains twelve papers that report on empirical investigations and new language versions of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). Six papers describe a MAIN language version, including the typological ch…
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View article: (In)definites, pronouns and bare nouns: How Turkish/Swedish bilingual 4-to-7-year-olds introduce characters in narratives in Swedish
(In)definites, pronouns and bare nouns: How Turkish/Swedish bilingual 4-to-7-year-olds introduce characters in narratives in Swedish Open
This study investigates the referential forms children use to introduce characters in Swedish, in a cross-sectional sample of oral narratives by 100 Turkish/Swedish bilinguals aged 4 to 7 and in a longitudinal sample from age 4 to 6 ( N = …
View article: Connectives in written narratives by German-speaking children in fourth grade and adults
Connectives in written narratives by German-speaking children in fourth grade and adults Open
Connectives are a central means for creating a coherent discourse. The relationships between specific connectives, coherence relations and syntactic relations are complex for children to acquire. In this paper, we systematically compare th…
View article: Age and task type effects on comprehension and production of narrative macrostructure: storytelling and retelling by Swedish-speaking children aged 6 and 8
Age and task type effects on comprehension and production of narrative macrostructure: storytelling and retelling by Swedish-speaking children aged 6 and 8 Open
It is often said that story retelling tasks, where children listen to a model story and then retell it, are easier than story telling tasks, where children are not provided with a model. However, previous studies have rarely used comparabl…
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View article: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: Recent developments and new language adaptations
Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: Recent developments and new language adaptations Open
This volume contains ten papers that report on recent developments and new language versions of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). Eight papers describe a MAIN language version, including the typological characte…
View article: Acquisition of narrative macrostructure: A comprehensive overview of results from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives
Acquisition of narrative macrostructure: A comprehensive overview of results from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives Open
In this paper, we give a comprehensive overview of the results from studies that have used the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to investigate comprehension and production of narrative macrostructure (story structur…
View article: The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children
The Development of Referring Expression Use from Age 4 to 7 in Swedish-Speaking Children Open
When telling a story, a speaker needs to refer to story characters using appropriate expressions, which requires a mental model of the discourse. We hypothesize that, compared to those of adults, children’s discourse models are based more …
View article: Anaphoric Reference in Written Narratives by German-Speaking 10-Year-Olds and Adults: The Influence of Referential Function and Character Type
Anaphoric Reference in Written Narratives by German-Speaking 10-Year-Olds and Adults: The Influence of Referential Function and Character Type Open
It has been suggested that acquiring the appropriate use of referring expressions consists of a shift from an initial focus on global accessibility factors, e.g., animacy or character type, towards primarily considering local accessibility…
View article: The development of narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children aged 4 to 9: a longitudinal study
The development of narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children aged 4 to 9: a longitudinal study Open
This longitudinal study investigated the development of oral narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children (N = 17). The MAIN Cat/Dog stories were administered at four timepoints between age 4 and 9. Different narrative aspects…
View article: Preface: New language versions of MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – Revised
Preface: New language versions of MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – Revised Open
ZasPiL 64.2020 contains 33 articles
View article: New language versions of MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – Revised
New language versions of MAIN: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives – Revised Open
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) is a theoretically grounded toolkit that employs parallelpictorial stimuli to explore and assess narrative skills in children in many different languages. It is part of the LITMU…
View article: Character introductions in oral narratives of Swedish–German bilingual preschoolers
Character introductions in oral narratives of Swedish–German bilingual preschoolers Open
Closely related Swedish and German both mark information status of referents morphologically, though little is known about its acquisition. This study investigates character introductions in the narratives of 4- and 6-year-old Swedish–Germ…
View article: Subjective and intersubjective modality: a quantitative approach to Spanish modal verbs
Subjective and intersubjective modality: a quantitative approach to Spanish modal verbs Open
This paper presents a semantic analysis of the Spanish modal verbs deber ‘must’ and tener que ‘have to’, based on their deontic uses in parliamentary debates. These verbs have previously been described in terms of weak vs. strong necessity…
View article: MAIN story comprehension : What can we expect of a typically developing child?
MAIN story comprehension : What can we expect of a typically developing child? Open
This study investigates story comprehension in 124 typically-developing children aged 4-6 growing up in Sweden, using the LITMUS-MAIN (Multilingual Assessment instrument for Narratives, Gagarina et al. 2012). 72 Swedish monolinguals and 52…
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View article: Narrative texts by children and adults
Narrative texts by children and adults Open
ZASPiL 62.2019 contains 10 articles.
View article: Macrostructural organization of adults’ oral narrative texts
Macrostructural organization of adults’ oral narrative texts Open
This study investigates macrostructure in elicited narratives of 69 monolingual German-, Russian- and Swedish-speaking adults. Using the LITMUS-MAIN (Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives), and its Baby Goats and Baby Birds sto…
View article: Developing narrative competence : Swedish, Swedish-German and Swedish-Turkish children aged 4–6
Developing narrative competence : Swedish, Swedish-German and Swedish-Turkish children aged 4–6 Open
This thesis investigates the development of oral narrative competence from age 4 to 6 in Swedish monolinguals (N=72) and in both languages of Swedish-German (N=46) and Swedish-Turkish (N=48) bilinguals growing up in Sweden. Picture-based f…
View article: Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT)
Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT) Open
This article investigates the cross-linguistic comparability of the newly developed lexical assessment tool Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT). LITMUS-CLT is a part the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS)…
View article: Turkish- and German-speaking bilingual 4-to-6-year-olds living in Sweden: Effects of age, SES and home language input on vocabulary production
Turkish- and German-speaking bilingual 4-to-6-year-olds living in Sweden: Effects of age, SES and home language input on vocabulary production Open
This paper investigates vocabulary production in the minority home languages of 40 Turkish-Swedish and 38 German-Swedish bilingual preschoolers aged 4;0–6;11, growing up in Sweden. We explore how age, SES, and exposure via mother-tongue in…
View article: The Business Impact of Internet of Things
The Business Impact of Internet of Things Open
Problem Description Both academic researches and consulting firms claim that Internet of Things will come to change the society we live in, as well as create entirely new business opportunities for companies. However, there is little resea…