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Journal of Speech and Hearing Research Vol.38 415-425 April 1995.
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Measurement of Narrative Discourse Ability in Children With Language Disorders

Betty Z. Liles 1
Robert J. Duffy 1
Donna D. Merritt 1

Sherry L. Purcell 1
1 University of Connecticut Storrs

Narratives from three studies differing in subject pools, elicitation procedures, and story content were analyzed using seven variables hypothesized to measure a variety of language abilities used in narrative production. Two questions were addressed: (a) To what extent did multiple variables represent common factors? and (b) To what extent did these variables distinguish children with language disorder from their nondisordered peers? Results indicated that: (a) The seven variables represented two factors; Factor I measured global organization of content (i.e., episode structure), and Factor II measured within- and across-sentence structure (i.e., grammatical sentence structure, within subordinate clause productivity, and textual cohesion), and (b) regardless of study, only the variables representing Factor II were selected as the most effective in predicting group membership.

KEY WORDS: narrative, language disorder, cohesion, elicitation, linguistic

Submitted on March 18, 1994
Accepted on September 20, 1994


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