The Pausing Strategies in Chinese Preschool Children's Narratives

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Jiehan; Yu, Fan; Feng, Chen; Li, Su
Titel	The Pausing Strategies in Chinese Preschool Children's Narratives
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66 (2023) 2, S.431-443 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Liu, Jiehan) ORCID (Li, Su)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Language Processing; Gender Differences; Short Term Memory; Vocabulary Development; Narration; Verbal Ability; Chinese; Foreign Countries; Task Analysis; Phrase Structure; Age Differences; Behavior Patterns; Intervention; Language Impairments; Intelligence Tests; Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Tests; Picture Books; China (Beijing); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sprachverarbeitung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Wortschatzarbeit; Mündliche Leistung; China; Chinesen; Ausland; Aufgabenanalyse; Phrasenstruktur; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Denkfähigkeit; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; Picture book; Bilderbuch
Abstract	Purpose: Language production, a dynamic process involving real-time language processing, is crucial for children's language and communication development. To explore the early development of children's real-time language production, this study investigated Chinese preschool children's pausing strategies in narratives and their associations with verbal working memory and vocabulary abilities. Method: A picture-elicited narrative task was employed. Sixty Mandarin-speaking children aged 4-5 years were asked to tell a story according to the book "Frog, Where Are You?" The pausing types and positions in narratives were coded and analyzed. Additionally, children's verbal working memory and vocabulary were measured. Results: The results showed that 4- to 5-year-old children prefer to use silent pauses and tend to produce pauses within clauses. The total frequency of pausing decreases with age and shows a significant gender difference. Girls prefer to use within-clause pauses, whereas boys prefer to use between-clause pauses. More importantly, children's pausing frequency is closely associated with their verbal working memory and vocabulary, in which working memory plays a more important role. Conclusions: This study is a first-step exploration of pausing strategies in 4- to 5-year-old Chinese children's narratives. The developmental characteristics of pausing strategies shown in typically developing children serve as a crucial reference for interventions for children with language deficits. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01