The general aim of this descriptive study is to investigate how children from 3 to 9 plus 13-
year-olds and adults use temporal elements to organize the macro temporal structure of
narratives. In order to achieve this general aim, it specifically delineates how the emergence
of story units differ relative to age / how the emergence of temporal elements differ relative
to age and story units / and how the function of each temporal element differs relative to age
and story unit in the narratives elicited from children from 3 to 9 plus 13-year-olds and
adults, using Mercer Mayer& / #146 / s (1966) wordless, picture-book Frog, where are you? as
stimulus.
Participants are 98 children from 3 to 9-yearolds, as 14 informants in each age group / fourteen 13-year-olds and 14 adults.
The orally collected data were transcribed and episode boundaries were coded according to
Labov& / #146 / s (1972) story grammar. The occurrence of each temporal element within the coded
episodes was counted. Frequency of each temporal element relative to age and story unit was
identified. Functions of each temporal element relative to age and story units were analyzed.
A great majority of the 3- and 4-year-olds produce narratives that do not count a story. 5-
year-olds produce narratives that can be considered a story, however they fail to produce
internal components of episodes. 7-year-olds are observed to produce episodes that contain
necessary internal components.
The emergence and function of temporal elements show differences relative to age and story
unit.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12606122/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 June 2005 |
| Creators | Ozcan, Mehmet |
| Contributors | Ruhi, Sukriye |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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