Variety of Children’s Narratives as the Reflection of Individual Differences in Mental Development
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The purpose of this research is to establish the variety of expanded narratives generated by children aged 6 based on a series of pictures, which is determined by his or her individual neuropsychological characteristics, as well as by the maturity of perception and of processing visual-spatial information. The material of the research is a number of stories produced by Russian children based on the wordless book “Frog where are you?”. The 24 picture series telling the story of a boy and his dog searching for a runaway frog is standard material for studying the narratives of children speaking different languages (Berman & Slobin, 1994), allowing for insights into the norm and deviation in verbal and cognitive development (cf. Clifford, Reilly, & Wulfeck, 1995; Norbury VARIETY OF CHILDREN’S NARRATIVES AS THE REFLECTION OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
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