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Micro-linguistic Features in the Narratives of English SLI Teenagers

Authors
Xiangyu Jiang, Yunyun Xia, Xin Wang, Xianwei Li
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Xiangyu Jiang
Available Online 10 June 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210609.060How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Specific language impairment, Micro-linguistic features, Adolescent
Abstract

This study investigated the language sample of adolescent narrative language, focusing on the analysis of the differences in the use of micro-linguistic feature between adolescents with specific language impairment (SLI) and typical language development (TLD) adolescents. The corpus is collected by storytelling, which is transcribed into text, and then segmented into t-unit as the unit of analysis. This article uses ANOVA analysis to figure out the differences between SLI and normal subjects. The results show that the number of t-units and the average length of t-units used by SLI teenagers are lower than those of TLD teenagers, and the frequency of noun phrases and clauses employed by SLI teenagers is lower than that of TLD teenagers. Among them, the frequency of nominal clauses exhibits the largest difference. Therefore, a conclusion can be drawn that the TLD group produces more complex sentences in narratives than those with SLI, including more subordination and some vocabulary, such as nouns, adverbs, metalanguage verbs, metacognitive verbs and conjunctions. In sum, compared with TLD peers, SLI adolescents show a significant reduction in narrative discourse output, which is reflected in poor performance in lexical level and syntactic level.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
10 June 2021
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.210609.060
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210609.060How to use a DOI?
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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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