In the current study, storytelling and story retelling by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were analyzed to explore ambiguous third-person pronoun use in narratives. Twenty-three children diagnosed with ASD aged 6;1 to 14;3 and 17 typically-developing (TD) children aged 5;11 to 14;4 participated in the study. In the retelling task, no significant difference between the groups was fo...

We investigated the role of speech-accompanying gestures in analogical problem solving. Participants attempted to solve Duncker’s (1945) Radiation Problem after reading and retelling a story that described an analogous solution in a different domain. Participants were instructed to gesture, instructed not to gesture, or given no instructions regarding gesture as they retold the story. Participa...

Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic elements that index different relations and coherence between units of talk. Most research on the development of these forms has focused on conversations rather than narratives. This article examines age and medium effects on use of various discourse markers in pre-school children. Fifteen normal Iranian monolingual children, male and female, participated ...

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the characteristics of linguistic disfluencies during story generation and retelling tasks investigate an association between cognitive abilities in narrative samples. Methods: A total 49 children aged 7-10 (20 with vocabulary delay 29 typically developing children) participated. Participants completed task. Children’s utterances were analyzed into four c...

It is well known that conversation (e.g., on a cell phone) impairs driving. We demonstrate that the reverse is also true: Language production and comprehension, and the encoding of the products of comprehension into memory, are less accurate when one is driving. Ninety-six pairs of drivers and conversation partners engaged in a story-retelling task in a driving simulator. Half of the pairs were...

Investigations that focus on children’s hand gestures often conclude that gesture production arises as a result of having multiple representations. To date, the predictive validity of this notion has not been tested. In this study we compared the gestures of 82 five-year old children holding either a single or a dual representation. The children retold a story narrated to them, with pictures, b...

This longitudinal study compared the development of oral language and more specifically narrative skills (storytelling and story retelling) in children with specific language impairment (SLI) with and without literacy delay. Therefore, 18 children with SLI and 18 matched controls with normal literacy were followed from the last year of kindergarten (mean age=5 years 5 months) until the beginnin...

OBJECTIVES Elderly adults demonstrate a reduced ability to produce increasingly concise and coherent discourse with repetition when compared with their younger counterparts. We explored whether discourse efficiency and quality would increase with story retelling in a dialogic context. METHOD Participants were 30 elderly adults aged between 65 and 91 years (M = 77.03, SD = 9.214). Fifteen part...

While the art of storytelling has been around for thousands of years, the advent of Computer-Assisted Language learning (CALL) revived the ancient form of the story reading. This paper examines the effects of exposure to audio-visually enhanced flash stories on story retelling of EFL learners. Thirty two Iranian EFL English learnerswithin an age range of11-13 were randomly assigned to two group...

People retell events for different reasons. Sometimes they try to be accurate, other times entertaining. What characterizes retellings from different perspectives? How does retelling perspective affect later recall of events? In the current research, participants retold a story either three times or not at all. By instruction, retellings were either entertaining or accurate. Compared to accurat...