Reported speech uses in children with and without developmental language disorder
Nina Crespo Allende,
Maria Luisa Silva,
Jeannette Sepúlveda Toro
et al.
Abstract:This study compares the use of reporting speech devices (RS) in narrative retells by Spanish-speaking children with (and without) Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). We assessed 50 7-year-old children (25 with DLD and 25 with TD) and analyzed the narrative retells’ length and the RS forms introduced by children. In addition, we considered the Type of Reported Speech linguistic mechanism (TRSm) and the Type of Voice Assignment (TVA). Neither the number of RS sequences introduced, narrative retells’ length, n… Show more
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