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Purpose: This study focused on literate language features in spoken narratives of school-age children with typical language development and school-age children with language impairments (LI).
Method: The spoken narrative retellings from male and female children aged 7 to 10 years were analyzed. The samples yielded scores for the literate language features of conjunctions, elaborated noun phrases, mental and linguistic verbs, and adverbs. A general language performance measure (number of different words) also was studied.
Results: Group membership main effects were statistically significant for conjunctions and elaborated noun phrases, with effect sizes ranging from small to moderate. No statistically significant differences were obtained for age level or gender. Correlations between scores for number of different words and scores for the literate language features were low to moderate.
Clinical Implications: The measures of conjunctions and elaborated noun phrases differentiated children with LI from those with typical language. When the number of different words was normalized for sample length, support for its use as a general language performance measure was not obtained.
KEY WORDS: language impairment, literate language, language assessment, narration
Submitted on July 24, 2000
Accepted on January 10, 2001
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