Лингвистические параметры нарратива детей с нарушением речевого развития
LINGUISTIC PARAMETERS OF NARRATIVES PRODUCED BY CHILDREN WITH SPEECH DISORDERS

Summary/Abstract: The article identifies linguistic characteristics of narratives produced by children with speech disorders. The material includes 75 oral narratives (1,894 words) based on a three-part picture story. The quantitative linguistic analysis was conducted to assess linguistic parameters of the narratives. Grammatical patterns of clause organisation were examined, including clause length, dependency structure, part-of-speech structure, verb and noun forms, and functional perspective. The analysis also covers clause types and units expressing inter-clausal relations. The actant and event structures of the narratives were examined. The findings show that the narratives tend to describe only the main events employing short non-extended clauses constructed according to the subject – verb – object model. Considerable variability was observed in event naming. Textual coherence was primarily achieved through using coordinating conjunctions and contextually related subjects, which marked relations of addition only. Causal and spatio-temporal connections remained largely unexpressed. The article suggests that, in generating their narratives, the children relied not on the event structure of the picture story, but on its actant configuration.

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