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April 5, 2026Journal Human Research in RehabilitationOpen Access

Syntactic Complexity of L2 Story Production in Minority Children with Mild Intellectual Disability: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

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MCMonika CivericaGHGordana HržicaAZAnja Slovenc Zganec

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Overview

Quantitative and qualitative analysis compares narrative syntax in minority children with mild intellectual disabilities and their typically developing peers, revealing significant differences.

Key Points

  • The aim is to compare the syntactic complexity of narratives produced by Roma children with intellectual disability and their typically developing peers.
  • Narratives were analyzed using the MAIN instrument.
  • Participants included 16 Roma children with mild intellectual disability and 32 typically developing peers matched by age and language.
  • Comparisons focused on mean length of communication unit, mean length of clause, and clausal density measures.
  • Roma children had reduced mean length of communication unit and mean length of clause compared to both control groups.
  • Only lower clausal density was observed in Roma children when compared to their chronological peers.
  • The most common syntactic error was the omission of sentence elements.

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Civerica et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d1fb20a79560c99a0a1836https://doi.org/10.21554/hrr.042614
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