The Relationship of Form and Content in Children's Discourse Paraphrases [microform] / David P. Snow
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- 5390222
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- Author:
- Snow, David P
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980
- 13 p.
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In a verbal memory study of language development, third- through sixth-grade children read and orally recalled short, expository passages which were presented in three syntactic paraphrase forms: (1) complex sentences with preverbal elaboration such as complex subject nominalizations and relative clauses, (2) complex sentences with postverbal elaboration, and (3) simple sentences. Syntactic analysis of the children's best recall samples (those showing high semantic recall) revealed that third through fifth graders tended to paraphrase the target information in simple sentences, regardless of the complexity of the material they had read. Sixth graders, however, maintained the original syntax more often than younger subjects, suggesting a better recall memory for syntactically complex features of discourse. The results corroborate previous findings showing that children's speech in the upper elementary grades shifts towards greater structural complexity. As suggested by Ingram (1975), such a shift may reflect important developmental changes in the linguistic strategies children use during this age range for producing complex sentences in connected discourse. (Author)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Conference of the California Linguistics Association (Long Beach, CA, May 3-4, 1980).
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