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Karina Hess Zimmermann
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
México, Facultad de Psicología
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Lexical development during adolescence: An analysis of nouns in oral and written narratives
Vol 27 No 115 (2013): Actualidades en Psicología: Prácticas Narrativas en Latinos/Narrative practices among Latinos
Published: Oct 22, 2013
Abstract
During the school years, lexical acquisition is directly related to experience with written language. In this study we investigated how adolescents make lexical choices in two different discursive contexts: oral and written narratives. Participants were 24 adolescents that belonged to two different social environments, determined by the amount of previous experience with literacy. Narratives were analyzed for the presence of literary academic language. Therefore a semantic-pragmatic analysis of nouns using the Noun Scale Analysis (Ravid, 2006) was conducted. Results show differences between groups of adolescents and between oral and written modalities.