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KMID : 1036820190240030608
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Communication Sciences & Disorders
2019 Volume.24 No. 3 p.608 ~ p.622
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The Relation between Mental Verbs Utilization and Child Pragmatic Language Checklist Scores in a Story Retelling Task: 6 to 9 Aged Children
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Lee Eun-Ju
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Abstract
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Objectives: Mental verbs are related to children’s communication and language development, especially their reading comprehension and language skills. So, we examined whether the usage rate of mental verbs in a story task was related to the scores of the Children’s Pragmatic Language Checklists (CPLC).
Methods: In a “Retell the Story” task with 22 child participants, we examined the relationship between the story comprehension scores, usage rates by type of mental verb, and the usage rate of mental verbs by stage of sentence complexity and scores by four sub-regions of CPLC through Pearson product-moment association. We looked at the above correlation analysis to see if a regression model could be used to predict the pragmatic language proficiency score through variables that are significantly correlated.
Results: IQ scores, REVT-E scores, cognitive verbs, psychological verbs, and perceptual verbs among mental verbs were found to be related to CPLC scores. IQ scores were significantly related communication intent scores (t=2.583, p=.018). Also, the REVT-E score was significantly related the nonverbal communication score (t=2.382, p<.027). These results are meaningful in that they show that communication skills are related to individual intelligence and vocabulary ability. In particular, the rate of usage of psychological verbs was significantly related to the ability of the child language checklist to contextual variation (CV; r=45, p<.035). The rate of usage of psychological verbs was confirmed to be a variable for predicting CV score, and a description model was available (F=5.12, p<.035).
Conclusion: Although this study was limited to 22 participants, it is meaningful in that the degree of use of a particular vocabulary is related to, and predicts, pragmatic language skills.
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KEYWORD
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Mental verb, Psychological verb, Story retelling, Pragmatic language, CPLC
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