Poetry as a Mnemonic Prompt in Children's Stories |
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| Authors: | Susan R. Goldman Peter M. Meyerson Nathalie Coté |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago, Illinois, USA;2. University of Wisconsin Oshkosh , Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA;3. Belmont Abbey College , Belmont, North Carolina, USA |
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| Abstract: | This research investigates the effects of prosody on children's recall for stories using two successive studies. Study 1 is an ethnographic exploration of a group of fifth graders creating summaries of a children's story with overt prosodic elements. Study 2 is a quasi-experiment in which the story summaries created by students who heard one of two versions (more or less prosodic) of the story from Study 1 were compared. Overall, we find that the amount of prosody in a story has a significant effect on children's story recall and the quality of the stories they produce. |
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