Ingrida Balčiūnienė

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• Professor (Associate) at Vytautas Magnus University

Monografijoje pristatomas didelės apimties rišliojo pasakojimo tyrimas ankstyvoje vaikystėje. Pasakojimo įgūdžiai yra itin svarbūs vaikui, nes skatindami vaikus pasakoti istorijas geriname ne tik jų kalbą, bet ir kognityvines funkcijas, emocinį intelektą, užtikriname akademinę sėkmę ir kultūrinį supratimą. Nuo vaikystės besiformuojantys pasakojimo...

The first holophrases of a child’s speech mark the beginning of the development of oral discourse. Various typologies of genres fall mainly into two groups: those that are based on the external criteria (functional-pragmatic, social-pragmatic) towards the text, and those that are based on certain textual traits of the text. Mastering oral discourse...

Objectives. Pronounced disharmony in verbal communication development is considered a typical developmen­tal feature in infantile autism; however, its manifestations and mechanisms have not yet been studied enough; extremely little is known about the qualitative features of speech development and the psycholinguistic char­acteristics of the languag...

Impaired communication and speech behavior is considered to be one of the key manifestations of childhood autism. At the same time speech disorders in children with autism have not been sufficiently studied. In a meta-analysis of the modern studies of autism, we present different theories explaining relations between the childhood autism and im­pai...

Disfluency in children and adults seems to occur like errors of speech but, at the same time, is an essential feature of spontaneous (unprepared) speech. The present study aimed to evaluate linguistic disfluencies in typically and atypically developing Russian-speaking children from the perspective of the dynamic adaptive model of self-monitoring i...

Despite a long history of scientific studies dyslexia remains extremely dramatic educational and social problem. An inability to learn and automatize phonological recoding and word-decoding skills is recognized as one of the core mechanisms of dyslexia. Among the remedial reading instruction methodologies, two fundamentally different strategies are...

Numerous studies in language acquisition have been revealed that oral discourse plays a crucial role in cognitive development and communicative development and has an impact on the so-called narrative mind, social intelligence, autobiographic memory, and personal identity. The paper is devoted to the main patterns and mechanisms of the acquisition...

Despite a long history of studies in the discourse, we still lack systematic investigations in the discourse acquisition at the preschool and pre-primary school age. Namely, the influence of variables, such as discourse genre, communication register, socio-pragmatic skills, on different linguistic parameters almost has not been investigated yet. He...

Persistent lexical and grammatical errors in children’s speech are usually recognized as the main evidence of language delay or language disorder. These errors are usually treated as a sign of a deficit in language competence. On the other hand, some studies have revealed the same kinds of grammatical errors in children with developmental language...

This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Altaic) with different degrees of derivational complexity...

Among the multiple examples of visual semiosis in culture, particular attention is paid to painted (or drawn) objects such as pictures, book illustrations, separate items and some compositions in design and ads. There is a lot of evidence to recognize painting as the means of communication in the cultural space and as a visual language. Still, it s...

The paper deals with a comparative analysis of the Part-of-Speech Profile between different languages and discourse genres in 6-year-old typically developing Russian- vs. Lithuanian-speaking children. Results of the study inspire a discussion on a possibility to evaluate both language competence and language performance of the same subject on the b...

Introduction. Studies in phonological development usually focus on the acquisition of separate segments and quality of their realization, while much less is known about the development of whole-word patterns. Analysis of whole-word structures addresses word structure patterns (WSPs) children master and use in their speech. The aim of our study was...

The papers in this volume concern events and narratives from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. The first and second papers by Janusz Badio deal with fictional dialogue and the use of stereotypical gender roles in the construal of a story. The chapter by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz analyses the story by A.S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Night...

There are many studies devoted to the segmental level of a phonological development. From this perspective, the phonological development is discussed as a sequence of separate phonemes acquisition. In contrary, following the whole-word analysis [1], the main point is how a child copes with the whole-word acquisition. For the latter approach, a long...

Studies in phonological development usually focus on the acquisition of separate segments and the quality of their realization, while much less is still known about the development of whole-word patterns. The analysis of the whole-word structure, or word shape, addresses word structure patterns (WSPs) that are mastered and constantly used by childr...

The chapter presents our findings on a complex experimental comparative study of the narrative analysis of language-impaired and typically-developing monolingual Russian children. The data of storytelling and retelling according to wordless picture sequences were collected from specifically language-impaired preschoolers, dyslexic school-age childr...

The study examines macro- and microstructural characteristics of narrative production in Lithuanian as the first language of a group of Lithuanian-English sequential young (mean age 6;1) bilinguals (n = 12) living in the UK; the control group of monolingual Lithuanian children (n = 12) residing in Lithuania was tested as well. Monolingual children...

This paper describes The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language and its possible applications for modern studies on the first language acquisition. First of all, the procedure of data collection for the Corpus is discussed. Furthermore, the main methodological principles of longitudinal and experimental data compilation and transciption are decri...

The aim of the article is to discuss the features of delayed language development, focusing on the acquisition of the grammatical system on the basis of corpus data. The main object of the present investigation is longitudinal language data of three children (a late talker and a pair of twins). To describe the features of delayed language developme...

Introduction. At the stage of transition from a preschool to a school age, children already should have mastered sufficient skills for both narrative comprehension and production. During school activities, a vast number of narratives are usually employed, and, thus, a child who struggles with narrative comprehension/production falls into the at-ris...

The aim of the study was to present lexical and grammatical features typical for different registers of modern Spoken Lithuanian. The study was based on a data of the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian (http://donelaitis.vdu.lt/sakytines-kalbos-tekstynas/) which was developed in the framework of national projects coordinated by Vytautas Magnus University...

An acquisition of the morphological system of the native language is always a long, multilevel, and multi-stage process that causes difficulties (depending on the typological and genealogical features of the given language) not only for language-impaired but also for typically-developing (Voeikova, Dressler 2002, Stephany, Voeikova 2009) children....

Усвоение родного языка является многоуровневым и многоэтапным процессом, который начинает реализовываться у детей уже на первом году их жизни. Так как морфология русского языка представляет собой сложную систему, в частности, из-за высокой флективности, усвоение всех ее составляющих является длительным и трудным процессом не только для детей с рече...

В докладе рассматривается влияние жанра устного дискурса – нарратива и диалога – на грамматический частотный профиль (ГЧП) у детей 6 лет с первичным недоразвитием речи. В качестве речевого материала были взяты тексты разных жанров дискурса: вымышленного (fictional) нарратива и структурированного вопросно-ответного диалога (дискуссии) «взрослый-ребе...

Навык построения повествовательных текстов, в том числе – нарративов – формируется к концу дошкольного возраста. В школьный период детям уже приходится, как создавать, так и обрабатывать большое количество связных текстов, и именно понимание нарратива играет одну из важных ролей в этих процессах. На основе результатов многочисленных западных исслед...

When a child masters his/her reading skills, their internal structure usually changes. The consistency of orthography in different languages influences differently the size of the grains in reading development process. When monitoring the development of reading skills, one should take into account the size of processing units which are employed by...

Development of narrative competence, i.e. a transition from personal to fiction stories, bridges the gap between child’s mimetic mind and mediational mind (Nelson 1996) and serves as a primary background for early literacy prerequisites (McCabe 1996). Internal state terms (ISTs), an integral part of a narrative macrostructure, take part in mentaliz...

The aim of the article is to discuss the early language acquisition, which comprises the language acquisition period from the very beginning of the grammar system development to its complete formation. In the present research, the part of The Corpus of Lithuanian Children Language, which comprises transcribed and grammatically coded longitudinal la...

The given paper is devoted to an urgent issue – analysis of coherent speech in the narrative genre of discourse in children with primary speech underdevelopment. In the course of experimental qualitative-quantitative observation of 24 children aged 6, the authors carried out a narrative inquiry of macro- and microstructure of texts obtained as a re...

The paper focuses on a pragmatic and structural analysis of interrogative repetitions that seem to be typically frequent in child-directed speech (CDS). The cross-linguistic analysis was based on longitudinal corpus data of two Indo-European languages, Russian and Lithuanian, which are recognized as being morphologically rich and highly inflected....

A number of studies in language acquisition have dealt with some parts of speech (PoS). Mainly, a growth of noun and verb diversity as well as a variety of inflections have been evaluated separately from other PoSs. However, the PoSs play a unique functional role of building blocks interacted to each other in utterance, text, and discourse. The mor...

Lithuanian adjectives constitute a well-defined morphological category: they are inflected and fall into nine declensions. Lithuanian adjectives agree with nouns in number, gender, and case. Despite rich inflectional system, Lithuanian adjectives are morphologically similar to nouns: they behave much like nouns and their declensions are practically...

Twin language is considered to be a unique object of scientific studies in psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and speech therapy. Twins tend to lag behind singletons in their language development, but the causes are still unknown. There are many factors affecting the development of twins’ language such as low birth weight...

Twin language is considered to be a unique object of scientific studies in psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and speech therapy. Twins tend to lag behind singletons in their language development, but the causes are still unknown. There are many factors affecting the development of twins’ language such as low birth wei...

Tyrimo tikslas ‒ remiantis natūralios kalbos analize, aprašyti sintaksinių būdvardžių funkcijų skyrimo kriterijus, aptarti atributinių ir predikatinių junginių su būdvardžiais struktūrą bei dažnumą sakytinėje kalboje. Tyrimo metu taikomas tekstynų lingvistikos metodas. Tyrimo šaltinis – Vytauto Didžiojo universitete sukurtas morfologiškai ir iš dal...

Significance Although much research has been devoted to the acquisition of number words, relatively little is known about the acquisition of other expressions of quantity. We propose that the order of acquisition of quantifiers is related to features inherent to the meaning of each term. Four specific dimensions of the meaning and use of quantifier...

The paper deals with the main methodological issues of development of the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian with particular attention to its syntactic coding and applications for automatized language analysis. First, we consider a methodology of development of the Corpus as well as the principles of transcribing and coding Lithuanian speech data. The mai...

The paper deals with linguistic disfluencies (hesitations, repetitions, revisions , false starts, and incomplete utterances) in Russian-speaking language impaired (N=12) vs. typically-developing (N=12) preschoolers. The corpus-based study aimed at evaluation and comparison of linguistic dis-fluency in narrative vs. dialogue discourse within and bet...

The paper deals with micro- and macrostructural static and dynamic narrative characteristics in specifically language-impaired (SLI) Russian-speaking preschool children and their typically-developing (TD) peers. The study was based on experimental data that included storytelling and retelling elicited by means of wordless picture sequences. First,...

Среди разнообразных методов изучения детской речи до настоящего времени не предпринималось попыток количественного статистического анализа распределения грамматических категорий в текстах детей как с нормой развития, так и при состояниях первичного недоразвития речи. Существует много свидетельств, что в процессе развития языка и речи ребенок начина...

Syntactic features of spoken Lithuanian still lack of studies due to insufficient data basis and limited technologies and research methodologies. During the last years, the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian (developed at Vytautas Magnus University) has been syntactically annotated and this has enabled for complex automatized syntactic analysis. In this p...

Linguistic disfluency might be defined as various forms of hesitations, repetitions, revisions, false starts, incomplete utterances, etc. They seem to be quite natural elements of spontaneous speech; moreover, a number of disfluencies increases along the speaker's age (Evans, 1985) and growing linguistic skills (Starkweather, 1987; Fiestas et al.,...

The syntactic features of spoken Lithuanian are still under-researched due to insufficient data bases, limited technologies, and research methodologies. During the last years, the "Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian" (developed at Vytautas Magnus University; 225,000 words; 80 hours of digitalized audio recordings) has been syntactically annotated, and thi...

Speech disfluency can be distinguished as being either stuttering or linguistic disfluency; the latter can be divided into categories such as hesitations, fillers, repetitions, revisions, and connectors. Significance of linguistic disfluencies in the flow of conversation has been particularly emphasized at the very beginning of studies in conversat...

The article presents a complex experimental study in narrative production in Russian-speaking typically-developing (TD) and specifically language-impaired (SLI) pre-schoolers 1. Following a methodology of dynamic approach to narrative assessment, the data (video-/audio-recordings) of both story-telling and retelling according to a wordless picture...

Straipsnyje pristatomas rašytinio teksto suvokimo tyrimas, atliktas dviem etapais tikrinant suaugusiųjų (aukštosios mokyklos studentų) skaitymo ir kognityvinės veiklos gebėjimus. Pirmajame tyrimo etape visi tiriamieji (N = 40) atliko tris teksto suvokimo ir tris kognityvinės veiklos užduotis. Remiantis gautais rezultatais, buvo sudarytos dvi grupės...

The paper presents the methodology of narrative elicitation of dyslexic children. The experimentwas conducted in Saint Petersburg (Russia) testing 9–10 year old children. The experimental group consisted of 12 children with dyslexia, and a control group contained 12 peers without any developmental disorders. Each of the subjects performed two tasks...

In this chapter we would like to ... focus on adult communicative (conversational) strategies concerning early ad-jective acquisition: Do adults encourage a child to produce adjectives (e.g. ask special questions, ask them to repeat a particular word, etc.) or do they prefer waiting for so-called natural acquisition? If adults try to elicit particu...

The study deals with the impact of non-linguistic factors on narrative production in Russian-speaking dyslexic children. The experimental group consisted of 12 children (age 9–10) with dyslexia and the control group comprised 12 peers without any developmental disorders. The sample was counterbalanced from the perspective of narrative mode, story c...

Straipsnyje pristatoma rišliojo pasakojimo analizės metodika, sukurta ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų monologinės (rišliosios) kalbos tyrimams. Apžvelgiami lauko tyrimo rezultatai, atskleidžiantys esmines rišliojo pasakojimo kalbos charakteristikas: pasakojimo produktyvumą, leksikos įvairovę, ir sintaksės sudėtingumą. Gauti rezultatai leidžia palyginti...

Данное исследование посвящено изучению взаимосвязи между способностью понимать текст при чтении и продуцировать устный нарратив у детей с дислексией. Экспериментальная группа состояла из 12 детей 9–10 лет, страдавших дислексией; контрольная группа состояла из 12 здоровых детей того же возраста. Схема эксперимента включала рандомизацию для всех испы...

Spoken discourse studies are a relatively new phenomenon in Lithuanian psycholinguistics, thus various methodological issues still lack a full theoretical and methodological backing. In this paper, methodological issues of syntactic analysis of Lithuanian spoken discourse are discussed. Namely, two principles (one grammar-based and the other discou...

The paper deals with automatized analysis of reading strategies in Russian-speaking children. The study 2 is based on a data of 40 typically developing monolingual subjects who were at the very initial stages of reading development at the beginning of experiment period. The subjects were assessed three times by a set of reading tasks which included...

Early intervention in SLI children needs efficient and ecologically valid diagnostic tools. Narrative analysis could serve as such a tool for a number of reasons. First, oral narratives represents a good sample for structured communication evaluation (McCabe & Bliss, 2003); second, narrative skills considered informative predictor for written langu...