The aim of this study is to compare the narrative ability of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and children with typical language development (TLD) using new material for narrative assessment – the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). Twenty children with DLD and twenty with TLD, mean age 6.6 years, all monolingual speakers of Croatian, participated in the study. Results demonstrated that children with TLD outperform children with DLD at the macrostructure level in both conditions – story generation and retelling. In addition, the type of elicitation was shown to have an impact on narrative production.

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典型语言发育儿童与发育性语言障碍儿童叙事话语的宏观结构比较分析

这项研究的目的是使用新的叙事评估材料-多种语言叙事评估工具（MAIN），比较发展性语言障碍（DLD）儿童和典型语言发展（TLD）儿童的叙事能力。20名患有DLD的儿童和20名患有TLD的儿童（平均年龄为6.6岁）全部使用克罗地亚语，他们都参加了这项研究。结果表明，在两种情况下（故事产生和重述），TLD儿童的表现均优于DLD儿童。此外，已表明启发的类型对叙事产生有影响。