This longitudinal study investigated the development of oral narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children (N = 17). The MAIN Cat/Dog stories were administered at four timepoints between age 4 and 9. Different narrative aspects were found to develop differently. In story comprehension, the children performed high already at T1 (4;4) and were at ceiling at T2 (5;10), whereas story structure developed significantly until T4 (9;4). Narrative length and syntactic complexity reached a plateau at T3 (7;4). Referent introduction was not mastered until T4. The results suggest that general conclusions regarding the development of narrative skills depend on the specific aspects studied.

这项纵向研究调查了单语瑞典语儿童（N = 17）口头叙述技能的发展情况。主要的猫/狗故事在 4 岁到 9 岁之间的四个时间点进行。我们发现不同的叙事方面有不同的发展。在故事理解方面，孩子们在 T1 (4;4) 时表现已经很高，在 T2 (5;10) 时已达到上限，而故事结构直到 T4 (9;4) 才显着发展。叙事长度和句法复杂性在 T3 达到稳定水平 (7;4)。直到T4才掌握所指介绍。结果表明，有关叙事技能发展的一般结论取决于所研究的具体方面。