Results | ||||||
Macrostructure | SLI children with fragile linguistic structure | SLI children more likely to produce stories of uneven strength— either stories with poor content or stories with elaborated content | SLI had lower scores than the TD children on several narrative measures as well as on sustained auditory attention and verbal working memory |
| Children with SLI and literacy delay had persevering oral language problems across all assessed language domains. The children with SLI and normal literacy skills had low scores in vocabulary, morphology and story retelling skills |
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Microstructure | Pragmatic aspects of storytelling (referencing, event content, mental state expressions and inferencing) were demanding too | grammatically quite accurate stories but other times less grammatical | SLI children showed more linguistically complex sentences in the story retelling task than in the story generation task | Children with SLI showed significantly lower MLU, TNW and NDW, and significantly higher %UGS | On listening comprehension and storytelling, they managed to make progress towards the level of the control group | On the morphosyntactic accuracy measures, the group with SLI performed more poorly than bothcontrol groups |