Comparing syntactic development in adolescents’ written texts
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2017/08/0017/000319Keywords:
syntactic development, written texts, adolescenceAbstract
The aim of this study was to investigate whether adolescents reach the linguistic level corresponding to their age and to compare their syntactic abilities in written narrative and non narrative texts. The results showed that generally older adolescents had better syntactic abilities compared to smaller ones. However, an unexpected linguistic development was observed in the smaller age group and in non narrative texts, showing that the production of complex texts may lead to unexpected linguistic levels.
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