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The Use Of Differing Verb Types In The Oral Narratives Of School-Age Children, Allison Ann Switzer
The Use Of Differing Verb Types In The Oral Narratives Of School-Age Children, Allison Ann Switzer
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The aim of this project was to examine the use of action, metacognitive, and metalinguistic verbs in narratives relative to age-related growth for children with typical language and their peers with a language-based disorder. While limited information is known about the use of these differing verb types, there is evidence to show that metacognitive and metalinguistic verbs are less salient than action verbs, and therefore have a longer trajectory of acquisition. The oral narratives of 84 typically developing students were coded for occurrences of action verbs, metacognitive verbs, and metalinguistic verbs to obtain a total use as well as to …