Micro-linguistic Features in the Narratives of English SLI Teenagers

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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© 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiangyu Jiang
AU  - Yunyun Xia
AU  - Xin Wang
AU  - Xianwei Li
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - Micro-linguistic Features in the Narratives of English SLI Teenagers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 298
EP  - 301
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210609.060
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210609.060
ID  - Jiang2021
ER  -