The Pausing Strategies in Chinese Preschool Children's Narratives

doi:10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00542

	The Pausing Strategies in Chinese Preschool Children's Narratives
	Liu, Jiehan 1,2; Yu, Fan 2; Feng, Chen1,2 ; Li, Su1,2
通讯作者	Li, Su(lis@psych.ac.cn)
摘要	Purpose: Language production, a dynamic process involving real-time language processing, is crucial for children's language and communication development. To explore the early development of children's real-time language production, this study investigated Chinese preschool children's pausing strategies in narratives and their associations with verbal working memory and vocabulary abilities. Method: A picture-elicited narrative task was employed. Sixty Mandarin-speaking children aged 4-5 years were asked to tell a story according to the book Frog, Where Are You? The pausing types and positions in narratives were coded and analyzed. Additionally, children's verbal working memory and vocabulary were measured. Results: The results showed that 4- to 5-year-old children prefer to use silent pauses and tend to produce pauses within clauses. The total frequency of pausing decreases with age and shows a significant gender difference. Girls prefer to use within-clause pauses, whereas boys prefer to use between-clause pauses. More importantly, children's pausing frequency is closely associated with their verbal working memory and vocabulary, in which working memory plays a more important role.Conclusions: This study is a first-step exploration of pausing strategies in 4- to 5-year-old Chinese children's narratives. The developmental characteristics of pausing strategies shown in typically developing children serve as a crucial reference for interventions for children with language deficits.
	2023-02-01
语种	英语
DOI	10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00542
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
ISSN	1092-4388
卷号	66 期号:2 页码:431-443
收录类别	SCI
资助项目	National Natural Sci- ence Foundation of China[30870779]
出版者	AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
WOS关键词	WORKING-MEMORY ; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES ; HESITATION PHENOMENA ; SPEECH PRODUCTION ; PAUSES ; FLUENCY ; WORDS ; PREDICTABILITY ; ACTIVATION ; COMPLEXITY
WOS研究方向	Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology ; Linguistics ; Rehabilitation
WOS类目	Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology ; Linguistics ; Rehabilitation
WOS记录号	WOS:000975933000002
资助机构	National Natural Sci- ence Foundation of China
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/45388
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
通讯作者	Li, Su
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
通讯作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Jiehan,Yu, Fan,Feng, Chen,et al. The Pausing Strategies in Chinese Preschool Children's Narratives[J]. JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH,2023,66(2):431-443.
APA	Liu, Jiehan,Yu, Fan,Feng, Chen,&Li, Su.(2023).The Pausing Strategies in Chinese Preschool Children's Narratives.JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH,66(2),431-443.
MLA	Liu, Jiehan,et al."The Pausing Strategies in Chinese Preschool Children's Narratives".JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH 66.2(2023):431-443.