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The study of discourse presentation in children's narratives has been limited to the analysis of direct and indirect speech (reported speech). Thus, other useful structures for narrating and presenting speech, thought, and writing have not been yet considered. This paper aims to account for the diversity in children's narratives, as well as demonstrate the applicability of a stylistic-literary analysis model of fictional narrative prose to the study of elicited narratives. We use an elicited corpus composed of twenty narratives in Spanish produced by young schoolchildren during a guided retelling task. The results show the stylistic diversity of this corpus and support the use of this model in the stylistic analysis of elicited narratives. This approach introduces a broader way of studying language development though the observation of style in narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Predicative adjectives resemble adverbs of manner as states and action evaluators in narrative discourse. In romance languages, it prefers adjectives as depictive secondary predicates and adverbs with the form -ment(e) in formal and written register, but it prefers adverbial adjectives in oral and informal register (Hummel, 2000). This study shows how Mexican young students have assumed this model of use of these predicate modifiers through comparing predicative adjectives and adverbs of manner in three corpus: 82 narrative texts from scholar reading books; 76 oral and written stories created by 38 students in the last level of Mexican Basic Education; 38 oral personal stories. It is demonstrated that these students have assumed those used differences, basically contrast between formal and informal production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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