Purpose Personal narratives are common in children's conversations, recommended as the
appropriate genre for early writing by educators, and part of many high-stakes tests, possibly …

Narrative production, especially personal narrative discourse, is a critical aspect of
communicative competence. It is important for children in relating to peers and adults …

Different lines of evidence indicate that the ability to communicate narratives coherently is
related to children's social-emotional development. However, it is unknown whether …

Personal narratives are a critical aspect of functional discourse. The purpose of this article is
to describe the impairments of personal narrative discourse in children with language …

In a previous publication Bijou, Umbreit, Ghezzi, and Chao (1986a) outlined, in the form of a
Manual, specific procedures for analyzing referential linguistic interactions based on …

Whereas physics has evolved through three conceptual stages, the third being that of field
theory, psychology has remained largely at the second stage, that of mechanistic or …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides a hypothesis of language development and a
description of a method for studying language, both based on Kantor's psychological …

Oral narrative is a critical skill for school achievement, for personal relationships and for
social participation. However, it is downgraded in current and proposed N ational C …

Method Subjects Four freshmen, four seniors, and four graduate students participated in the
study, the freshmen serving as the principal subjects. The freshmen received bonus points in …