Mäkinen Leena, Loukusa Soile, Laukkanen Päivi, Leinonen Eeva, Kunnari Sari
Faculty of Humanities, Child Language Research Center, University of Oulu , Oulu , Finland and.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2014 Jun;28(6):413-27. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2013.875592. Epub 2014 Jan 21.
This study investigates narratives of Finnish children with specific language impairment (SLI) from linguistic and pragmatic perspectives, in order to get a comprehensive overview of these children's narrative abilities. Nineteen children with SLI (mean age 6;1 years) and 19 typically developing age-matched children participated in the study. Their picture-elicited narrations were analysed for linguistic productivity and complexity, grammatical and referential accuracy, event content, the use of mental state expressions and narrative comprehension. Children with SLI showed difficulties in every aspect of narration in comparison to their peers. Only one measure of productivity, the number of communication units, did not reach statistical significance. Not only was linguistic structure fragile but also pragmatic aspects of storytelling (referencing, event content, mental state expressions and inferencing) were demanding for children with SLI. Results suggest that pragmatic aspects of narration should be taken into account more often when assessing narrative abilities of children with SLI.
本研究从语言和语用学角度调查了患有特定语言障碍（SLI）的芬兰儿童的叙述情况，以便全面了解这些儿童的叙述能力。19名患有SLI的儿童（平均年龄6岁1个月）和19名年龄匹配的发育正常儿童参与了该研究。对他们的图片引发叙述进行了分析，包括语言产出能力和复杂性、语法和指代准确性、事件内容、心理状态表达的使用以及叙述理解。与同龄人相比，患有SLI的儿童在叙述的各个方面都表现出困难。只有一项产出能力指标，即交流单元数量，未达到统计学显著性。患有SLI的儿童不仅语言结构薄弱，而且故事讲述的语用方面（指代、事件内容、心理状态表达和推理）也颇具难度。结果表明，在评估患有SLI的儿童的叙述能力时，应更频繁地考虑叙述的语用方面。
