La coherencia causal en relatos infantiles de experiencia personal. Un estudio con niños argentinos hablantes de español
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Several studies have highlighted the relevance of narrative discourse, especially narratives of personal experience, for cognition, literacy, socialization, and schooling. The achievement of narrative coherence is a key factor in the development of this type of discourse. Although causality is an essential dimension of coherence, no studies were identified that specifically examined causal coherence in Spanish-speaking children’s personal narratives. This paper aims to study causal coherence in narratives of personal experience produced by 66 Argentinian Spanish-speaking children aged 3, 4 and 5 years. For the analysis of the narratives, we used a heuristic approach of an adapted version of Trabasso et al.'s Causal Network Narrative Model, and we employed the Kruskal Wallis test to make comparisons between age groups. Results showed an increase according to age in the degree of complexity and coherence of the causal organization of the narratives and provide evidence of the potential use of the model as a tool to infer how children causally relate individual events in their mental representation of the sequence that underlies the production of narratives of personal experience.
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